Resources
Arts SA
Arts SA supports the Creative Writing Program at the University of Adelaide. It part-funds the Chair in Creative Writing, and its Executive Director, Greg Mackie OAM, sits on the Creative Writing Program's Advisory Board.
Jennifer Osborn, Research Librarian
The Creative Writing Program's Research Librarian is Jennifer Osborn. Her website contains resources relevant to creative writing as well as links to state, national and international professional organisations.
Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership
The University of Adelaide, through the Creative Writing Program, is the host institution for the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (APWP), which is an international collaboration of universities, literary organizations and individual writers, scholars, and others interested in researching, supporting or otherwise promoting new writing from or about Asia and the Pacific
Journals/Magazines
Wet Ink is directly associated with the University of Adelaide (as was the zine staples).
Texbooks on Learning to Write
- Tess Brady and Nigel Krauth, Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice
- Reddi Brown and Dave King, Self-editing for fiction writers : how to edit yourself into print
- Kate Grenville, The Writing Book
- Graeme Harper, Teaching Creative Writing
- Graeme Haroper and Jeri Kroll, Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy
- Hazel Smith, The Writing Experiment
- Mark Tredinnick, The Little Red Writing Book
- Brenda Walker (ed.), The Writer's Reader
Professional Organisations
Local
- SA Writers' Centre (SAWC)—SA's community-based writers' organisation, part of a national network of Centres. Contact the Centre for:
- Society of Editors (SA)—also part of a national network, currenly engaged in accreditation, and holds annual conferences around Australia. Contact the Society to employ an editor for your manuscript—they have a list of freelancers.
- Manuscript Assessment services are available nationally and locally. Contact the SAWC or the ASA for information about these services. Examples:
National
- Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)—the most important forum in Australia for the discussion of all aspects of teaching creative and professional writing and for debating current theories on creativity and writing.
- Australian Literary Agents' Association—The Australian Literary Agents' Association was formed in 2003. Members of the Association are obliged to adhere to the principles outlined in the code of practice.
- Australian Society of Authors (ASA)—the professional association for Australia's literary creators, functions as a union with advice and advocacy. Contact the ASA for information about
- Literary agents
- Manuscript Assessment Services
- Contracts
- Publishers
- Australian Writers’ Guild—the organisation for script writers
- PEN is a worldwide association of writers working to promote literacy, oppose censorship and advocate free speech. For more information see the Adelaide PEN, Sydney PEN or Melbourne PEN websites.
- SPUNC—the Small Press Underground Networking Community. SPUNC exists to advance the interests of the Australian small and independent publishing sector, and to facilitate cooperation between members of that sector.
Prizes/Competitions
Readings
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