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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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Writers Victoria appoints new CEO, Julie Skate


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Writers Victoria has appointed Julie Skate as its new CEO, taking over from Lucy Hamilton. “On behalf of the Writers Victoria Board, I am pleased to welcome Julie to the organisation,” said Chair of the Writers Victoria Board Alex Hammond. “Julie offers extensive leadership experience within the not-for-profit arts and cultural sector, and her appointment marks

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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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Kate Fullagar Wins The 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship


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On Wednesday 13 March, in front of a large audience at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, social and cultural historian Kate Fullagar (ACT) was announced as the winner of the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000. Kate’s proposed biography, ‘The secret life of Marguerite Wolters’, is about an 18th century spy mistress whose espionage

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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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Writers Victoria farewells CEO Lucy Hamilton


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Writers Victoria CEO Lucy Hamilton will step down from the organisation after three-and-a-half years.  “I’m proud of my time at Writers Victoria, and the work the team has delivered in that time,” said Lucy. “We’ve forged exciting new partnerships, attracted new funding streams, and continued to develop our programs in ways that best serve our participants.

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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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