Description
This subject introduces students to Australian writers currently at work in the industry. How do Australian writers juggle the business and creative aspects of writing? Where do they publish, what forms do their creative practices take, and how do they survive financially? The classes will be a mixture of guest lectures and interviews in which writers, editors and agents share their experience of writing industries. Students will be encouraged to actively engage with industry professionals, and to engage critically with the work of significant Australian writers.For the 2024 iteration of this subject my visiting guests were: Lizzie Levot (Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster), James Jiang (Editor, Sydney Review of Books), Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans (Key People Literary Management), Dr Sarah Holland-Batt (Stella Prize-winning poet and academic), Distinguished Prof Kim Scott (leader of the Noongar Language Project and twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award) and Gary Lonesborough (Yuin writer/educator and winner of the Victorian P{remier's Award for Young Adult Fiction).