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Camha Pham on Author-Editor Relationships and the Professional Edit 


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By: Jennifer Nguyen

Camha Pham is a freelance editor based in Naarm/Melbourne, with over ten years of experience in the publishing industry. Her freelance clients include publishers such as Hachette, Hardie Grant, UQP, Affirm Press, and Pantera Press, among others. She has worked in-house at Oxford University Press and Margaret River Press, and has sat on various editorial boards. […]

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Karen Comer on Measured Rhythm and Writing Young Characters 


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By: Sarah Giles

Karen Comer is an author, freelance editor and speaker based in Melbourne. She’s represented by Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management and Booked Out speakers’ agency. She presents writing workshops to adults and children. Her work as a freelance editor includes fiction for adults and children and non-fiction. Karen writes verse novels – Grace

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Eugen Bacon on Deviants, Prizes and Limitless Possibility 


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By: Sarah Giles

Eugen Bacon MA, MSc, PhD is an African Australian author of novels and collections. She’s a British Fantasy Award winner, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award finalist, and a twice World Fantasy Award finalist. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black

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Saman Shad on Inspiration, Tropes and Writing Romance


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By: Jennifer Nguyen

Saman Shad is a writer, journalist and teller of stories. Her writing credits span mediums, including radio scriptwriting for the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia, and playwriting, with works commissioned by theatres in London and Sydney. She is a regular writer for several publications, including The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and SBS. She has also

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Sam van Zweden on Story and Intuition in Creative Non-Fiction  


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By: Sarah Giles

Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, food, mental health and the body. Her writing has been published by the Saturday Paper, The Guardian, ABC Life, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, the Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Her debut book, Eating with my Mouth Open, won the 2019 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award, and is available now.   Ahead of

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McKinley Valentine on Building Your Newsletter 


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By: Sarah Giles

McKinley Valentine grew up in a tiny copper-mining town on the edge of the Australian desert, and has established herself as a pioneering voice in what’s been called the ‘golden age of newsletters’. She is the writer of a cult-hit newsletter, The Whippet, and produces newsletters for design studio Paper Giant and board game company Jellybean

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Water As Lover


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By: Vanessa Bell

EN  The whole thing is of a colour I can’t identify. Yet it’s not the colour but the texture that first surprises me. Once I am able to assess the weightiness, I reckon with its power. There is, of course, the force with which I am moved, pulling in a brusque straight line. There is also

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Anna Snoekstra on Mystery, Horror and Suspense 


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By: Sarah Giles

Anna Snoekstra is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is the author of Only Daughter, Little Secrets and The Spite Game. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for Meanjin, KYD, Lindsay, SMH, LitHub, The Griffith Review and is a profile writer for The Saturday Paper. Her most recent novel is Out of

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Laura Elizabeth Woollett on Method and Minutiae 


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By: Sarah Giles

Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and three novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018), The Newcomer (Scribe, 2021) and West Girls (Scribe, 2023). The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly

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A Letter from Vanessa Bell


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By: Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell is codirector of CONTOURS and director of the poetry collection at Éditions du Quartz. Her practice in the literary arts has enabled her to perform in the Americas, Europe and Scandinavia and has been supported by several artistic residencies. She is the author of the poetry collections De rivières (2019, La Peuplade) and MONUMENTS (2022, Le Noroît),

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