What are the opportunities out there for a writer? What are the important ones? How can we access them? This panel will explore the wide variety of opportunities from financial to professional development available to emerging writers, covering topics from grants, writing prizes and awards, fellowships, to mentorship and more.
Conference & Online
State of Opportunity
Accessibility
State of Opportunity is part of the National Writers’ Conference, a one-day online gathering of emerging writers on Zoom.
Check out the full Conference program here.
To ensure the online event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed the relevant Zoom links 30 minutes prior to the Conference start time. Please check your email on the day of the event (including that pesky junk email folder). Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the Conference starts.
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Saturday 18 June
3-4pm AEST
Access this session with a National Writers’ Conference ticket
Online, via Zoom
Featuring...
Selene Bateman
Selene Bateman is a highly regarded arts administrator, producer and project manager who has worked in the creative sector for nearly 20 years.
Julia Carlomagno
Julia Carlomagno is the publisher at Monash University Press.
Veronica Sullivan
Veronica Sullivan is the Head of Programming at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and the chair of the Custodial Committee of the Kat Muscat Fellowship.
Jessica Obersby
Jessica is the Writeability Program Manager for Writers Victoria.
Rebekah Robertson
Rebekah Hawthorne Robertson works in Project Investment at the Australia Council for the Arts, the Commonwealth Government’s arts funding and advisory body.
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