This special event on grants for writers features representatives from Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, Copyright Agency and Writing NSW.

Internationally acclaimed author Marele Day and screenwriter Sarah Lambert (Love Child, A Place To Call Home, Love My Way) will shed light on how a work is transformed from the page to screen.

SOLD OUT – Join the waitlist. This opportunity is open to Writing NSW members only. Bookings open Monday 3 September. How does a publishing house work?  Ever wondered how a publisher decides whether or not to commission a work? Interested in getting feedback on your submission? On Friday 16 November, meet publishers from HarperCollins and […]

Quantum Words is a one-day festival of writing about science with speakers such as Fred Watson, James Bradley, Emma Johnston, Π O, Delia Falconer, Danielle Clode, and Evelyn Araluen. Book now!

This month we’re joined by Bronwyn Mehan, founder of short Australian fiction publisher, Spineless Wonders. Come along for a delicious morning tea and discussion on the behind-the-scenes workings of this Indie press.

Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect.

BOOKED OUT – This month we’re joined by Annette Barlow, publisher at Allen & Unwin. Come along for a discussion on the behind-the-scenes workings of the publishing industry, followed by a delicious morning tea.

Join the waiting list. In its annual Honouring Australian Writers series, Writing NSW pays tribute to writers who have made an important contribution to our literary culture. This year we honour Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993), Australia’s first published Aboriginal poet.

This month we’re joined by Isabel Staas, Production Manager at Hachette Australia. Come along for a discussion on the behind-the-scenes workings of the publishing industry, followed by a delicious morning tea.

This month we’re joined by Catherine Milne, Head of Fiction at HarperCollins. Come along for a discussion on book publishing followed by a delicious morning tea.

Now in its tenth year, the 2018 Kids & YA Festival will take place on Saturday 30 June! Directed by best-selling, internationally published children’s author Belinda Murrell, this year’s Festival showcases some of Australia’s best-known and dearly loved authors, illustrators, publishers, media personnel and industry professionals.

Each year, Writing NSW partners with regional writers’ festivals to present ‘Inside Publishing’, a panel discussion that explores the inner workings of the publishing world. This event provides networking opportunities and information about the industry to writers in regional NSW. This year the event will be held at Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival. Come along […]

Join us at Lazy Bones in Marrickville on Thursday 7 June for readings from Early Career Writer Grant recipients Jarrah Dundler, Alana Hicks, Shankari Nadanachandran, Drew Rooke, and Kerri Shying, and the recipient of the 2018 NSW Writer’s Fellowship, Stephen Pham, plus prizes and the reveal of our program.

This month we’re joined by Nerrilee Weir, Senior Rights Manager at Penguin Random House Australia. Come along for a discussion on international rights management followed by a delicious morning tea.

Forest for the Trees is a one-day seminar that explores the current state of writing and publishing in Australia. It brings together writers, publishers, and industry representatives to discuss what is happening in 2018.

Tragic, challenging or just plain boring, our first Talking Writing of the year brings together writers who find humour in the typically unfunny. Junkee’s News and Politics Editor, Osman Faruqi, will chair a panel including renowned tragic comic Annaliese Constable, slam poet and performance artist, Kevin Duo Jin, and Sweatshop’s Associate Director, novelist Tamar Chnorhokian. […]

Get up close and personal with some of Australia’s finest spec fic authors this July, as Cat Sparks directs her second Speculative Fiction Festival. Alongside a genre-spanning program of panels, the popular kaffeekaltsches are back, giving attendees the opportunity to take part in intimate group chats with the likes of Sean Williams, Margo Lanagan, Garth […]