Manchester writer Tania Hershman has been selected for one of Melbourne City of Literature’s 2026 Virtual Writer’s Residencies.

Each year, Melbourne City of Literature invites applications from writers across the global UNESCO Cities of Literature network to apply for a range of residencies, each attached to a specific organisation.

The writers will spend the month of November working with and learning from their chosen organisation, meeting other writers in residence and creating a piece of content inspired by their residency. This could be a workshop, written piece, panel discussion, social media takeover, or a new format of their own creation.

Tania Hershman will be resident with the Society of Women Writers Victoria. During the residency, they will be exploring women’s stories in varying short forms.

Tania is a queer writer of odd things based in Manchester, UK. Tania’s tenth book, a hybrid creative non fiction, It’s Time: A Chronomemoir, is out now with Guillemot Press. Tania’s second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2022 and her debut hybrid novel, Go On, a “fictional-memoir-in-collage”, was published by Broken Sleep Books in Nov 2022. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). Tania is also the author of a poetry collection, two poetry pamphlets and three short story collections and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics