30 Aug, 2021
The Australasian Reporting Awards 2021 Dinner will be held at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park Sydney on Monday, 30 August 2021. The 2021 gala event will celebrate ARA’s 70th anniversary in 2020. The Annual ARA Seminar on Reporting will be held the following day at the same hotel. Further details to be announced. For enquiries, […]
27 Aug, 2021
The Digital Lending Right (DLR): everything you need to know and how it affects you! The Australian Society of Authors presents this free online information session on their Digital Lending Right advocacy campaign. The ASA successfully campaigned for PLR (Public Lending Right) and ELR (Education Lending Rights), a payment scheme which compensates book creators for […]
10 Aug, 2021
Honing Your Craft: Creating compelling characters and riveting plots (Webinar) The Australian Society of Authors presents this online Zoom session, hosted by award-winning thriller writer Michael Robotham in conversation with author and mentor Sunil Badami where you will learn: How Michael plans and creates his characters The elements he includes that make his plots riveting […]
05 Aug, 2021 to 22 Aug, 2021
Darwin Arts Festival will be bursting with countless art, music, theatre, dance events and everything inbetween this August. It’s a magical time to visit the Top End in the tropical winter. Darwin Festival kicks off with a huge opening night concert extravaganza. This free, open-air event will see The Amphitheatre at George Brown Darwin Botanic […]
04 Aug, 2021
COVID-19 may not have driven recent changes to higher education, but it has certainly accelerated it. What are likely to be the lasting effects of the widespread adoption of online delivery and new teaching methods, and what does it all mean for publishers? Following on from the Australian Publisher Association’s past webinar on the recent […]
01 Aug, 2021 to 31 Aug, 2021
Poetry Month (1-31 August) is a new initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry, poets and publishers. The Poetry Month 2021 program features an electrifying lineup of poetic collaborations, daily poems and writing prompts, online workshops, poetic residencies and live to live-streamed showcases, designed to engage everyone – from veteran poetry lovers to […]
30 Jul, 2021 to 01 Aug, 2021
Broome’s Writer’s Festival, Corrugated Lines: A Festival of Words is celebrating it’s tenth year in 2021. Corrugated Lines: A Festival of Words celebrates Broome and the wider region’s wealth of talent in authors, illustrators and storytellers, and showcases a stellar line-up of visiting literary guests.The festival will host a combination of ticketed and free events […]
28 Jul, 2021
The Australian Society of Authors present the successful virtual ‘Literary Speed Dating’ series for 2021. The event is an exciting opportunity for ASA members to present a three-minute pitch of a completed manuscript to an audience of varied publishers and agents. There will be two sessions of Literary Speed Dating on Wednesday 28th and Friday […]
