本会简介
澳大利亚新南威尔士州华文作家协会，中文简称新州华文作协，英文全称Chinese Writers Federation of New South Wales Australia Incorporated，创立于1995年，是一个非政治性、非宗教性、非盈利性的民间专业组织，在新南威尔士州政府注册，会员为生活在澳大利亚新南威尔士州（简称新州）但不限于新州的华文作家。
协会的宗旨为：以文会友，交流写作经验，互通文学信息，提倡会员以多种文体、题材和风格写作，促进澳洲华文文学发展，使其获得澳洲主流文学界的了解，促进澳洲多元文化的发展，并使澳洲华文文学在世界华文文学中佔据一定的地位。
协会的最高权力机构为会员代表大会，执行管理机构为理事会，历届会长先后有杨明显、施国英、李明晏、萧蔚、李景麟、田地、千波，张劲帆，现任会长陆文涛，副会长梁军。
协会聚集了一大批活跃于澳洲华文文坛的实力派作家，是获得澳洲南溟出版基金赞助出版书籍人数最多的文学社团。协会自成立以来，举办过多次会员作品讨论会，接待过多位来自中国和其他国家的重量级作家，派代表出席世界华文作家代表大会多次；会员发表作品、出版书籍和获得文学奖项众多，是澳洲华文文坛卓有影响力的文学社团。
协会发行有会刊《南洲沙龙》，2020年改版为有正式刊号的电子半年刊《南极光》，每期15万字左右，主要发表会员作品，进入澳大利亚国家图书馆馆藏搜索系统。
本会不附属于任何组织，也没有下属单位。
About us
The Chinese Writers Federation of New South Wales Australia Incorporated (CWFNSW, was founded in 1995. The full Chinese name is “澳大利亚新南威尔士州华文作家协会”, or “新州华文作协“ in short. We are a non-profit, non-political, non-religious and non-governmental professional organisation, registered with the New South Wales government. Our members are writers who produce works in the Chinese language. We primarily live in, though are not limited to , New South Wales, Australia.
Our purpose
Meet friends and connect individuals through literature to enable the exchange of writing experiences and literary related information, and encourage members to write in a variety of literary form, styles and themes.
Support the development of Australian-Chinese literature in Australia and gain prominence in Australia’s mainstream literary circles.
Promote the development of Australia’s multiculturalism and establish the acclaim of Australian-Chinese literature on the international stage.
Our committee
The highest authority of our organisation is the member representative assembly, and the executive management body is the committee. The previous presidents have been Mingxian YANG, Guoying SHI, Mingyan LI, Wei XIAO, Jinglin LI, Di TIAN and Qianbo XIN. The current president is Jingfan ZHANG and the vice president is Di TIAN.
Our member
The organisation includes a large number of well-known writers active in the Australian-Chinese literary community. We have the largest number of books published under the sponsorship of the Australian Nanming Publishing Fund. Since establishment, we have held many events (such as seminars on members’ works ), collaborated with famous writers from China and other countries, and sent representatives to attend the World Congress of Chinese Writers on many occasion. Our members have published many works and books, and won various literary awards and accolades. Our organisation has become an influential literary society in the Australian-Chinese literary world.
Our Journal
We have been publishing a electronic journal since 2009 called “Nanzhou Salon” which was revised to a semi-annual journal “Southern Lights” with a registered international ISSN. Each issue is about 200,000 words. It mainly publishes members work. This journal is available on The National Library of Australia’s e-book system.
