Sydney Writers' Festival

With the support of the Australia Council for the Arts and Copyright Agency Limited, Sydney Writers' Festival is proud to announce the Festival's inaugural publishing industry program in which leading international and Australian publishers will share ideas and information about current developments and trends in the international publishing arenas.

The publishing strand is a mix of more than 30 free and ticketed events comprising workshops, seminars and panels involving a host of writers and industry representatives. There is also a dedicated day of panels on Thursday 22 May at the Sydney Philharmonia Choir Studio at Pier 4/5.

Seminar and panel topics include insights into the publishing process, including market overviews; practical tips on how to maximise your chance of getting publishing in both the children and adult market; managing the business side of writing careers including the legal complexities facing authors; the role of an agent; developments in digital publishing and the risk of the fake memoirist, and many more. Practical workshops range from genre workshops including crime writing, travel writing and memoir, as well as practical workshops on improving writing practice and tapping creativity.

International guests include David Davidar of Penguin Canada, a highly successful publisher and novelist in his own right, and Will Atkinson of Faber UK. They join Australian publishers and agents from across the local industry, to provide an insider's guide to the publishing world.

Click here to find out more about the events in the publishing industry program.

[Díaz] has written a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible voices.
New York Times 

2008 Sydney Writers’ Festival guest Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer prize for fiction this week for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Junot will present the 2008 SWF Closing Address and appear in three other events during the Festival. Click here for more details. 

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