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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

Let’s face it, writing is a bit of a heartbreaker. There are the swoony highs, for sure, the quickened pulse, the fixation – we wonder, could this be ‘the one’? But let’s not forget the devastating lows, the rejections and the limbo: days, weeks, months spent waiting for inspiration, for time, for publication, recognition, whatever it is we yearn for as writers.

Writing is demanding, capricious and elusive. It asks from us dogged commitment and persistence, but makes absolutely no promises in return. Why do we keep coming back for more?

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.