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What’s the best way to get invited to a writers’ festival (and get invited back)? How can authors put their best foot forward? In this video from her 2015 webinar, Melbourne Writers Festival Director Lisa Dempster shares her tips on breaking into the national and international festival scene.

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In this video from her 2017 webinar, Director of Writers Victoria Kate Larsen shares some top tips on writing effective funding applications.

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How do we choose online tools that suit us and our readers, and help us manage our time? In this video from her 2016 webinar, Kelly Gardiner talks about how to create and manage an online presence that is professional, interesting and doesn’t treat publishing like a late night shopping channel.

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The Year that Was

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Collaboration

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Adaptation

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Festivals

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Food & Wine

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Travel

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Words & Sounds

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Words & Pictures

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Fairy Tale Edition

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The Writer's Toolbox

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Writing for Children

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Indie Publishing

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Local Colour

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Modes, Methods and Miscellany

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Which Way Up?

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Back to School

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Do It Yourself

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In this issue, we look at successful writing collaborations and their intricacies. Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood talk about working together on 'Take Three Girls'; Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff talk to The Garret Podcast's Nic Brasch about their celebrated partnership; and CS Pacat writes about the development of her graphic novel series 'FENCE' and her relationship with artist Johanna the Mad.

'Love Writing': In this issue, Toni Jordan channels Marcus Aurelius (and Miley Cyrus) in her quest to embrace the obstacles writing lays out for us; Mark Brandi puts it all on the line for his writing; agent Jeanne Ryckmans reflects on how a love of storytelling has shaped her career – and her life, and Jes Layton tells us why she’s fallen hard for fan-fiction.

'Writing Each Other'

When inspiration strikes and the words and ideas are flowing and our worlds are building and our characters are becoming, it can be hard to pull away from the page or screen and ask, ‘Why am I telling this story?’

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about writing outside lived experience. The debate is complex and can be exhausting. In this issue, we endeavour to shine a light on different perspectives of the debate and look at some of the ways we can approach writing each other.

Writing is all about connections – the connections that happen neurologically, those that happen on the page and those that happen on a social level. These connections allow for exchanges: of ideas, of wisdom, for that sense that you’re not alone in all of this.

Whether we’re finding our way into our very first story or braving that first submission, or facing yet another blank page, or struggling to find the right opening lines, as writers, there are so many ways for us to begin.

'Bold and Brilliant' celebrates the International Day of People with Disabilities (IDPwD) and features disabled writers living in Victoria. As you’ll see in these poems, essays and short stories, there can be so many bold and brilliant moments in a disabled life. In this issue, Lyndel Caffrey explains the origins of the award-winning Write-ability program, and how it continues to change and grow. Chanel Geddes’s surreal short story explores societal expectations and the desire for belonging.

As bushfires rage across the country, the fate of entire communities, human and animal, rests on a sudden wind change, an unpredictable lightning strike. ‘We need writers to tell the stories of these times,’ urges Chris McKenzie in her PEN Melbourne column. But how do we tell those stories in ways that make people want to read them?