News for Aspiring Authors
Then this post might interest you. Publisher Pan Macmillan has announced that authors can now make manuscript submissions electronically every Monday between 10am and 4pm each Monday – ‘Manuscript Monday’. Further Pan Macmillan will no longer accept hard copy submissions from November this year. Pan Macmillan is interested in commercial fiction and nonfiction, literary fiction and nonfiction, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New 2 reference
Style : the essential guide for journalists and professional writers “Used by more than 120 newspapers and websites and more than 30 magazines, News Limited’s Style explains the grammar, spelling and punctuation rules used by Australia’s premier news-gathering organisation, its writers and its editors” – Revised and updated for the web. One copy in Reference [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Reading and writing
In an article in The Guardian, A.L. Kennedy said this about reading and writing : “I always say that writing and readers are misunderstood, because if you glance casually at people who are reading and writing, you may simply see people who appear serious, frozen. But if we happen to glance at people just before [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New to Ref: music, writing and succulents
The illustrated encyclopedia of musical instruments The authors explain how early musical inventions were scattered across the globe and how they evolved in various cultures. The structure of the book provides an overview of the history, symbolism, construction and playing technique of each of the instruments discussed. Held at Katoomba and Springwood Reference A [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
From 2010, Melbourne will have a new kind of cultural institution, the Wheeler Centre. It is named afetr the Wheelers of Lonely Planet fame. The Centre, and its website, will be dedicated to the discussion and practice of writing and ideas. Through a year-round programme of talks and lectures, readings and debates, and an evolving [...]
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