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Donna Hanson talks about getting Rayessa and the Space Pirates published with Harlequin digital imprint Escape

Hardie Grant Egmont's Ampersand Project launches its first tile, Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil

I am particularly interested in form.  I am fascinated by the differences between the written things that I love so much. My favourite pieces of writing include a short story by James Salter called Last Night, The Bone People, a novel by Kerri Hulme and a novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. When I widen the list to include more of my favourite written works I find…

Some days, it’s hard to think in sound bites. We work at it. We make our pitch perfect; we communicate a digest form of our grand idea. The idea is, of course, to lure readers. As writers, we’re trained to summarise our work in sound bites, in elevator pitches, in single paragraphs. “My novel is a whimsical romance, set in Paris in the twelfth century.” “I’ve written a story about star-crossed lovers,…

Can't participate in person? Why not take part online! Try your hand writing at writing a flash fiction response to the prompt below.

 

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Freelance food and travel writer, Tiana Templeman, filled us in on freelancing, markets and perfecting your pitch.

How did you start out freelancing? Was it always something you wanted to pursue?

I started freelancing as a way to make money from two of my greatest passions, food and travel.   Since my writing career began with long form narrative…

Brisbane short fiction and Spec Fic master, Trent Jamieson, tells us what he likes about short stories and why he's looking forward to reading yours.

There are enough short stories in the world that we don't need any more, in fact you could spend your entire life reading short stories and not read all of them. You could read all the brilliant ones, and not have much time…

Melbourne's Matt Blackwood provides some insight into his own experience with locative literature, a way of delivering stories in the place in which they are set.

Can't participate in person? Why not take part online! Try your hand writing at writing a flash fiction response to the prompt below.

 

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