If you've got itchy feet and twitchy hands and you're ready to be a travel writer, then this competition may be the best possible catalyst around.
The Rough Guide travel book is offering a month long trip to Turkey for an aspiring travel writer, to be mentored by Terry Richardson who writes the Rough Guide books. You'll even be tasked with your own assignment in Turkey, for publication in the next Rough Guide to Istanbul.
To enter you need to submit a 500 word travel essay on one of the nominated topics and tell the team behind Rough Guides why you should be awarded the scholarship.
It looks awesome - and a few of the team here are also considering entering. So get to it!
One of the wonderful things about writing these days is the vast range of styles and opportunities out there for writers. We discussed blogging on our Twitter and Facebook page recently, about whether it's an encouragement or a distraction to finishing that novel, or batch of articles.
We've got some very exciting plans for celebrating blogging that we're still working on, but you can win a Feature Writing Stage 1, or Creative Writing Stage 1 course, either face-to-face or online from a wonderful blog called The Pink Fibro written by Allison Tait.
Allison is celebrating her first year blogoversary, and if you're interested in reading a great blog and entering the competition, click here.
Australian Book Review, based in Melbourne, seeks applications for an Editorial Intern to help edit, produce and present Australia’s foremost independent literary magazine. This is a unique opportunity for recent university graduates seeking an entrée into publishing.
This Internship – worth $20,000 and supported by the Sidney Myer Fund – is currently the only intensive, paid editorial training program of its kind in Australian publishing. It reflects ABR’s long-standing commitment to fostering new editorial talent, and extends the magazine’s established volunteer intern program; widely regarded as a ‘finishing school’ for editing and publishing graduates.
ABR is a small and hard-working organisation, with a profound commitment to new writing and literary values. This is an excellent opportunity to refine your editorial skills and to work closely with leading writers and editors.
Applications (maximum five pages, including CV) are due by Friday, 18 February 2011.
Happy new year everyone! We're starting 2011 off with some big news. We are so thrilled to announce that the amazing Marina Go is joining the team at the Sydney Writers' Centre. Marina will be teaching Feature Writing for Magazines and Newspapers and is also set to share her wealth of experience with new courses that are in the pipeline.
Marina has helmed some of the biggest magazine titles in Australia. She was appointed editor of Dolly magazine at the age of 23. Since then she has been launch Editor of Australian Good Taste, Editor-in-chief of ELLE Australia, launch Editor of ELLE Cuisine, Editor of Sunday Life, Editor of Fashion for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, and launch Editor of PINNACLEmagazine.
She has also been the Managing Editor of Cosmopolitan, and Editor-in-chief of Pacific Publications, working on titles such as Girlfriend, Home Beautiful, Your Garden, New Idea and That's Life. Marina has a total of 24 years media experience with 20 years dedicated to the editorial, production and publishing of magazines. For the past two years she has focused on developing digital properties and related brand extensions as Publisher of The Hannan Group’s Independent Digital Media.
She began her media career as a newspaper journalist and worked in the news and features sections of The Daily Mirror for three years.
Marina's first Feature Writing course starts 25 January 2011.
Date: Tuesday 25 January (Tuesdays for 5 consecutive weeks)
Time: 6.30pm - 830pm
You can find out more here.
PERSONAL NOTE FROM VALERIE KHOO:
I am personally so excited about Marina's involvement in the Centre. I first met Marina 17 years ago when she was editor of Dolly. Soon after, Marina gave me my first real break at Pacific Publications and I have followed her career trajectory ever since. That first break set into motion my own career, one that I'm very passionate about. Marina has always been so generous with her knowledge and truly nurtures up-and-coming writers/editors. She has a no-nonsense approach to guiding people in their careers and in helping them become better writers. In particular, if you have an interest in women's/lifestyle magazines, I strongly encourage you to enrol in the above course.
We have VERY exciting news. We're running our most popular and requested courses (Creative Writing, Feature Writing for Magazines and Newspapers, Travel Writing, Travel Memoir Writing) in intensive formats this January and February 2011.
You can now learn from industry professionals in one week or a weekend, rather then 5 weeks, which is great news for those of you who live interstate, have caring responsibilities and or just can't spare 5 evenings over 5 weeks, and need to focus and learn the course content in much a much shorter time period.
Watch this video for more info:
You can click here to enrol. Places are limited to our standard class sizes, and they're filling fast, so make sure you snap up your place now and start moving towards you reaching your writing dreams.
