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Moreno Giovannoni was announced as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Cass Writing Prize at an event last night at Writers Victoria. The Prize was established in honour of Melbourne writer Deborah Cass and aims to aims to help someone from a migrant background find a voice for themselves and be encouraged to finish and publish […]
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The Australian Literary Agents’ Association (ALAA) represents more than one thousand established and emerging authors and illustrators across all sectors of the publishing industry. Along with many others in the publishing community, our members were shocked to hear that the federal government is considering the repeal of existing parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books. These
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Nine Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award. In its fifth year, the Fellowship attracted an exceptionally strong field of high-quality proposals from writers and biographers across Australia. Works about Australian writers, artists and visionaries feature in this year’s shortlist, which also includes European and American subjects. “I’m
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Sarah Widdup was a Write-ability Fellow in 2014. She was host and guest speaker at the Write-ability Salon (Nothing About Us, Without Us) at The Wheeler Centre in December 2015. He was just going down the shops, for smokes or milk or something. Probably smokes, even though he was a baby in the scheme of
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My neighbour’s growling four-wheel drive reverses past our headboard. Thin walls and a driveway less than a metre from our bedroom negating any need for an alarm clock. Pavlovian instinct kicks in triggering my first curse of the morning. An unsteady hand extends from the covers. Sausage fingers stabbing at the screen turning off flight
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The Deborah Cass Writing Prize was established to support unpublished authors whose work reflects on the migrant experience. Writers Victoria received 56 submissions, which included poetry, plays, memoir, fiction, and non-fiction. Members of the organising committee for the Deborah Cass prize agreed on this shortlist (countries in brackets feature in their submission): Sanaz Fotouhi –
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How do you define disability? What does it mean to you, and why? For a long time I mostly saw disability through the eyes of an able-bodied person with little experience of that world, until I realised it was broader than I imagined and I belonged in it. I had thought that disability would be
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Ashlee Bye was a Write-ability Fellow in 2015. She read this extract from ‘Out of the Shadows’ at the Write-ability Salon (Nothing About Us, Without Us) at The Wheeler Centre in December 2015. The line for the bar was ridiculous, but unsurprising; it was a Saturday night and this was one of the go-to nightspots
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Every fortnight, our Writeability Writers’ Group sessions give writers with disability the opportunity to meet and discuss their work. At December’s Writeability Salon, these talented emerging writers will share some of their stories. ‘Nothing about us, without us’ is the theme for this year’s Salon, which coincides with 2015’s International Day of People with Disability.
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In an agency that represents 65 creators across literary and commercial fiction, non-fiction, YA, series fiction and books for younger readers, as well as picture books, the work is varied and always interesting.
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