•Julie Koh left a career as a lawyer to pursue writing. Her books ‘Capital Misfits’ and ‘Portable Curiosities’ have been met with critical acclaim and in 2017, she was named the Best Young Australian Novelist by the Sydney Morning Herald. 

She spoke about her life as a writer in 'My Path Through the Forest' as part of Forest for the Trees 2018 at Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Julie Koh with My Path Through The Forest

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Writing with Passion

Deborah Abela talks about the highs and lows of her career, her passions, inspiration and writing process, building a career as a children’s writer, things she wished she’d known when she started out, pivoting during the pandemic, and being part of a writing community. In conversation with Belinda Murrell.

Writing With Passion - Writing NSW Kids & YA Festival 2022

Building Career Longevity: Publicity, social media, marketing and resilience

How do you build a thriving writing career in a rapidly changing industry? How do you help make your books sell? These highly successful professionals discuss the business of publishing including creating dynamic author platforms, social media, dealing with publishers and booksellers, advances and royalties, diverse income streams, and building resilience.

With Dot Tonkin, Paul Macdonald, Mick Elliott and Belinda Murrell (chair).

Building Career Longevity - Writing NSW Kids & YA Festival 2022

Sally Bradfield, author of Not Quite 30-Love, spoke to Samuel Elliot of The Write Way podcast, about the role Writing NSW's self-publishing course with Joel Naoum helped get her book out.

Sally Bradfield on self-publishing with Writing NSW and Joel Naoum

Sally Bradfield on Writing NSW's self-publishing course with Joel Naoum

This recording is part of the Honouring Australian Writers series, where Writing NSW pays tribute to writers who have made an important contribution to our literary culture. In 2020 we honour renowned author, journalist, playwright, and political activist Katharine Susannah Prichard. 

As part of re-examining Prichard’s legacy, this conversation between Jacqueline Wright and Jeanine Leane critically considers Prichard’s 1929 novel Coonardoo, and its place within a broader context of how First Nations peoples have been portrayed in their colonisers’ stories.

In this discussion are Jacqueline Wright, editor, teacher and author with over 20 years’ experience as a linguist  in WA’s remote north-west on Australian Aboriginal language, interpreting and cultural programs, and Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic who as published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction.

This conversation was recorded during NAIDOC Week, and Writing NSW recognises the 2020 theme Always Was, Always Will Be. First Nations people are the original storytellers on this land, and have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years.

For more recordings, videos and reading material, including a list of the texts mentioned in this recording, visit the Katharine Susannah Prichard Honouring page at writingnsw.org.au

Julie Koh with My Path Through The Forest

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