Welcome to Mansfield Readers & Writers!

Mansfield Readers and Writers celebrates storytelling in all its forms. We run, support and promote events for readers and writers. Our flagstone event is the biennial Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival. We also run High Country Words Writing Competition and feature the longlisted authors in an anthology.

Mansfield, in North East Victoria on Taungurung Country, is a small, vibrant town at the foothills of the High Country with an eclectic mix of people that thrives on tourism and farming. We support a great footy & netball club, an active arts community, Catholic/State/Steiner Primary Schools and a Secondary College, four churches, a hospital, a zoo, a huge autistic residency and education centre, a beautiful library, and many cafes. We have many 4WDs, horses and wildlife, outlying settlements like Jamieson and Merrijig and the busiest shop in town is Mansfield Hunting and Fishing. We also love books.

Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival: Oct 2027

The 2025 Festival was a wonderful chance to share ideas and celebrate literature. Our next festival will be held in October 2027. For 2026, we will focus on High Country Words.

High Country Words 2026

High Country Words Writing Competition has been run annually to date, but we have cut it back to biennial and will alternate years with the festival.

The theme for the 2026 competition is WILD and we have just announced the longlist, see High Country Words. These wonderful works will appear in our WILD anthology, out in November this year.

The anthology featuring longlisted entries from the 2025 competition, with the theme SCRUB, is now available.

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Mansfield Readers & Writers Inc acknowledges the Taungurung people as traditional custodians of the country on which we hold the festival and associated events. We pay respect to their Elders – past and present.