Getting Published: Secrets from the Writers & Editors!

Saturday 16 May: Young writers will have a chance to discover the secrets of publishing at Getting Published, a free panel held at Civic Library.

Have you always wanted to be published, but don’t know where to start?

Is your inbox full of polite (and not so polite) rejections?

Want to find out how successful writers get noticed?

At this free event, young writers will have the chance to ask established Canberra writers and editors of fiction, non-fiction and poetry firsthand what it takes to get published.

The panel will feature:

Paul Magee — Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at University of Canberra
Jack Heath — young author of bestselling novels The Lab (written at age 13),
Remote Control and Money Run
Rachel Longhurst — essayist and editor of young women’s magazine lip
Julia Winterflood — editor of the Canberra institution BMA Magazine
George Poulakis — essayist and editor of twenty600 magazine
Emily Stewart — poet and member of Block journal editorial team.

Getting Published is on in The Hub at Civic Library, from 2.00 to 3.30 pm.