Online Discussion with Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek
Last night HARDCOPY participants (past and present) were lucky enough to take part in an online Facebook discussion with Australian novelist Lucy Treloar. Here are some of the highlights of Lucy’s responses (reproduced with the permission of Lucy, and of the HARDCOPY project officer Nigel Featherstone.) For 90 minutes Lucy was inundated with questions and…
How to get your writing read by a publisher (or seven)
It’s really easy. All you have to do is spend 2-10 years writing, refining and rewriting your work. Then apply for a place in the ACT Writers Centre’s HARDCOPY Program for emerging writers. Then, if you are among the 30 or so people accepted, find the cash to pay for the course as well as…
HARDCOPY Reading List
Next week is the second part of the ACT Writers Centre HARDCOPY program. It is set up as a series of seminars and panel sessions over three days, like a mini writer’s festival, just for us lucky participants. The sessions will focus on the publishing industry: What do publishers want? The role of an agent. …
Update re HARDCOPY Writing Program
In my earlier post about the HARDCOPY writing program I had a little rant about the lack of feedback provided by competitive arts programs. Something along the lines of feedback being a vital professional development mechanism. In its application forms HARDCOPY promised feedback to the successful applicants only. But I found out today (while receiving…