You’ve spent months, years or even decades labouring over your manuscript, and you finally feel the time is right to have your work published. Submitting your work to a publisher or an agent is a big decision – not one you want to take lightly. And you don’t want to fall at the first hurdle […]

Ahead of her upcoming course at the NSW Writers’ Centre, Professional Editing, Pamela Hewitt reflects on the roles (and complications) of being a thoroughly modern editor.

A lawyer, teacher, writer and soon-to-be mother, Alice Pung thrives on juggling several things at the same time. But her passion for writing never wanes. Alice’s first book Unpolished Gem won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer of the Year Award. Her latest book Laurinda has been longlisted for the Stella Prize and shortlisted for the […]

‘I love the idea that the line of a poem always stands in a kind of tension with the sentence itself, that the two things tug away at meaning between them.’

Connor O’Brien is the director of the Digital Writers’ Festival held online and in Melbourne next year from 11 – 22 February 2015. He spoke to Amelia Cox about digital literature, the possibilities available to us now for creative projects and whether we should compare what happens in the digital sphere to traditional literary practices […]

In your workshop, Wildwords, you’ll be teaching students key tools to help them engage with their creativity and to develop stronger writing practices. What do you see as some of the major creative impediments that writers face when they begin a project? The biggest problem for many writers is dealing with the inner critic – that nagging voice […]

Allison Tait is a multi-genre writer who has more than 20 years’ experience in magazines, newspapers and online publishing. She has written four non-fiction books, including Credit Card Stressbusters (Wiley, 2009), Career Mums (Penguin Australia, 2012) and two ghost-written memoir/biographies. Her children’s novel The Mapmaker Chronicles: Race to the End of the World has just been released by Hachette, under the name A.L. […]

Despite his initial reluctance, James Roy is now the author of twenty books for young people, including two Children’s Book Council Honour Books, Captain Mack and Billy Mack’s War, and Town, which won the NSW Premier’s Award (Ethel Turner Prize) in 2008. Amelia Cox attended the six-week course, Writing for Young Adults with James Roy, […]

Children’s fiction author, Cornelia Funke, was a guest at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival where she talked about using technology to enhance storytelling. During the session, she presented the MirrorWorld app — a compendium of living stories that expand on the fantasy world Cornelia created in her Reckless and Fearless novels. The app combines cinema, […]