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In this video from her 2015 webinar, Foong Ling Kong shares what publishers look for and why. Learn the rudiments of a well-constructed proposal, how to write a successful covering letter and the importance of a good synopsis.

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In this video from his 2016 webinar, Euan Mitchell shares concise and money-saving answers about the ebook publishing process. Costs and benefits are weighed up against a list of common options for launching ebooks into orbit.

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How do you sustain your writing practice and make a living? In this video from her 2016 webinar, Jackey Coyle shares her tips on how to design your writing life with the tools to plan, work smarter, keep the books, maximise tax deductions and run your micro-business.

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A Sense of Place

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Getting Your Writing Out There

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Stage & Screen

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Place

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Festivals

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Genre

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Research

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Romance & Erotica

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Fiction Edition

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Etiquette Edition

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Health Edition

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Writing for Young Adults

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Beyond the Page

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Pure Speculation

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

Crossings

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

The Kit Out

‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine is a valuable resource for Writers Victoria members and aspiring writers across Australia.

'The Emerging Issue' What is an emerging writer? While Writers Victoria defines an emerging writer as someone who has ‘done a fair amount of writing ... had some short pieces published or been listed for some awards’, other organisations add a long-form published work to the mix. At any rate, there’s some confusion here, so in this issue, we try to pin down this enigmatic and elusive creature. Kate Cantrell unpicks the terminology, Sara Bannister expresses the frustrations of the pre-emerged state and Gabriella Muñoz writes about re-emerging in a new country.

Non-fictional

Setting out to do justice to non-fiction with its tenticular reach in thirty-four pages is an impossible task. It is such a various and amorphous genre, encompassing forms such as reference books and educational texts, essays, biography, memoir, true crime, creative and narrative non-fiction, and poetry.

Writing Life

All writers write life, whether the form is fiction, non-fiction, even instructional. It's impossible to escape life in writing.

'Write Place'

Place in writing is much more than a stage for characters and action. Place is the point at which politics, history and memory meet – and sometimes it is character and action as well. 

Doing It For the Kids

Children’s publishing is flourishing. Bookshops are heaving under the weight of irresistible offerings, exquisitely illustrated and designed, with punchy, poignant stories and vibrant, quick-witted characters.

This month, Writers Victoria marks thirty years of supporting and promoting the wonderful work of Victorian writers. 

'Writing Change' was chosen as a theme for this issue long before the bushfire crisis, floods and COVID-19 pandemic, not to mention a funnel-web spider ‘bonanza’, brought visions of environmental apocalypse into public consciousness. What is the role of the writer in such times? This issue features writing from Amanda Niehaus, Ash Peplow Ball, Jessica White, Bel Woods, Alex Kelly, and Michael Pulsford – among many others.

This ‘Sense and Sensibilities’ edition is a bumper issue covering June to September, and what a powerful issue it is — all the more so coming at a time when many writers feel unable to work, paralysed by anxiety in the face of extraordinary world events. Featuring writing from Kelly Gardiner, Patti Miller, Karon Warren, Krissy Kneen, Marisa Wikramanayake, Meg Vann, Heidi Everett, Roz Bellamy, David Maney, Thuy On, Kirsten Krauth, Katia Ariel, Rebecca Fraser, Siobhan Kavanagh, Belinda Lyons-Lee and Katherine Smyrk.

This issue covers December 2020 – February 2021, with the theme of 'Recovery'. The writers in these pages explore the theme of recovery in its different forms – some pieces talk explicitly of the pandemic, others reflect on recovery and writing. It features writing from Alexandra O'Sullivan, Josefina Huq, Isobel Robinson, Michael Morell, Andrea Rowe, Anthony Riddell, Lucinda Bain, Sally Holdsworth, Agi Dobson, Michael Metzger, Carla de Geode, Andrea Gillies, and Daniel Kraus.