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…
Mary Cunnane – wisdom and advice from Australia’s favourite literary agent
We were all such literary newbies that the HARDCOPY program co-ordinator had to explain to us who Mary Cunnane was. Only the one of the best-known agents in Australia. Only the woman to whom all doors in publishing were open. Only the founder of the Australian Literary Agents Association. Oh, you mean THAT Mary Cunnane. …
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. …