“When you embark on editing as a creative challenge, it can’t help but lift the quality of your work.”
Take a look at the great things we’ve read in October — an essay on poetry and joy, a new release on sex, power and consent, a moving story about a mother and daughter, and more!
We spoke with Adam van Rooijen about how to sell your books online ahead of Online: Digital Marketing Seminar for Writers.
David spoke to us about the challenges we face in this new normal, how they are best navigated, and how to grow from them, creatively and personally.
Lena spoke about how things have changed over that time, and what still needs to change, sharing initiatives that are making a difference and telling us how the writing and publishing sector compares with other art forms.
Boundless, Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, will be presented online, 30 October – 1 November.
Resilire. The question I have with this word is — what direction? For spring back, I mean. Towards the object or away from it? Both?
Benython discussed insights from his long career in publishing – as a literary agent and the Sydney-based director of Zeitgeist Agency, representing writers and illustrators from around the globe.
‘Resilience is about more than just survival. It’s about the capacity to bounce back, to continue to evolve despite obstacles or hardship.’