A one-day festival offering insights into the speculative fiction industry from award-winning authors, publishers, agents and editors.

Join us on Friday 5 July for a very bookish First Friday Club as we chat to Cheryl Akle, founder of Australia’s largest online book community, Better Reading.

BOOKED OUT – On Friday 26 July, publishers from Penguin Random House will be in residence at Writing NSW.

“It is at times dream-like, even hallucinatory, as though the words, etched out of cloud formations and therefore ever-shifting and dispersing, are the sprawled-out remains of neurons weary but still firing connections like glittering stars.” – Tess Pearson reviews The River in the Sky by Clive James

‘I believe that most writing comes from the body, and so I try to tap into that in early drafts. Music and photography, the visual and aural — and most of all, emotion — help me in that process.’

‘I promised myself I would always work towards understanding and being an advocate for Black Rights.’

Each month we shine a spotlight on a member of the Writing NSW community to learn more about their writing journey, achievements, and inspirations. This month we featured not one, but two members, Kel Butler and Pamela Cook, the team behind the Writes4Festivals podcast.