By Carla Caruso Chick-lit had its heyday in the nineties with Bridget Jones, Sex and the City, and cocktail-adorned book covers. It was so big, it was inevitable it would one day get too big for its Jimmy Choo boots and become the unthinkable: daggy. But true diehard fans know the genre hasn’t died entirely, […]

The latest issue of White Paper, ABC Radio National’s new monthly digital magazine, the third issue has a specific focus on writers and writing- including an article from Fiona McFarlane on the process of writing and publishing literary fiction. Check it out here. (more…)

Express Media is proud to announce the return of the Young Writers Innovation Prize in 2014. Funded by the Copyright Agency Limited, the prize is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for young writers and artists to bring their brilliant writing or publishing ideas to life. (more…)

A Mills & Boon book is sold in the UK every 3 seconds   ‘…the market is enormous, and almost every major publisher has a romance line. Most romances are mass market paperbacks. Most publishers will look at unsolicited unagented queries. Some will also take unsolicited manuscript submissions.’  Rebecca York In the Us, romance fiction […]

Congratulations to one of our Dubnium Young Editors, Royce Kurmelovs, who has been successfully granted a Kill Your Darlings Copyright Agency Investigative Journalism Mentorship. (more…)

By Jennifer Mills There is a good crop of literary journals in Australia at the moment, from stalwarts like Meanjin, the Griffith Review and Overland to newer projects like The Lifted Brow, Stilts, and the Review of Australian Fiction, and many in between. Some, like Voiceworks, have a particular brief (to publish young writers). These […]

Wakefield Press is pleased to announce that Simon Collinson will be joining them as their ‘Geek in Residence’ from June 2014, thanks to the generosity of the Australia Council for the Arts. Simon will be focusing on creatively enhancing Wakefield’s ebook production and marketing. (more…)

Bourne: A Magazine for Literature of Ideas is seeking manuscripts for its inaugural issue. They publish fiction, poetry, drama, scholarly non-fiction, book reviews and interviews. They seek literary works that explore philosophical, psychological, sociological and scientific themes and ideas. Modest honoraria are paid for accepted pieces. Please visit here for information and submission guidelines. (more…)

Ongoing Pure Slush is looking for travel stories: fiction or non-fiction, your story should include travel in some way – on the bus somewhere, local or international, in your mind, your own experience or someone else’s – and be no longer than 1000 words. Details here.   (more…)

Ongoing Tongues is an online, multilingual magazine launching in April. Supported by the 2013 Express Media Young Writers Innovation Prize, we aim to publish content in as many different languages as possible, on topics including travel, arts reviews, language learning, culture, memoir and linguistics. We’re looking for contributors for the online magazine, submissions of short […]

Ongoing The Australian Journal of Crime Fiction is a new quarterly online journal calling for scholarly and critical studies of works that fall within, or challenge the conventions of, the crime fiction genre. Works examined do not have to be Australian. Appropriate submissions include articles up to 5000 words, reviews up to 1000 words, and […]

30 June From 1–30 June, 2014, Jonathan Cape will be open for fiction submissions from new writers of high calibre and imagination. Submissions should be an initial 50 pages of prose fiction. These can be part of a novel or novella, or short stories. The pages can be finished work or a work in progress. […]

Melbourne Books AWAW (Award Winning Australian Writing) Anthology Mid May Next up on Melbourne Books’s literary agenda is the main AWAW anthology, which they won’t revisit officially until August. However, as always, they’ll gladly receive pieces sent in for consideration at any time. Submission guidelines can be found on the website. (more…)

Editing Boot Camp Friday 16th – Sunday 18th May 2014 Finished your manuscript? Thinking about submitting it/finding an editor/getting an assessment? Before you do, why not bring it along to our 3-day intensive Editing Boot Camp. You’ll learn what editing is, who does it, how to learn the craft, advanced grammar and writing rules, then […]

Mindshare.org.au are looking for a writer with lived experience of mental health issues to participate in a residency at the new City Library in Rundle Plaza. The residency is during October in Mental Health Awareness Month. The commitment is hosting a workshop around 2 hours long, 2 – 3 times during a week between 11 […]