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MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENT
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Assessor |
Materials Deadline |
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Saturday 11 September |
Sharon Rundle |
Wednesday 1 September |
| Saturday 9 October |
Nicola O'Shea |
Wednesday 29 September |
Do you want advice on how to improve your manuscript? Not sure your story is all it can be? Need advice on character, story, dialogue, tone, pacing or style? In a one-hour session one of our industry-experienced editors and manuscript assessors Nicola O’Shea or Sharon Rundle will work with you to help your manuscript reach its potential.
Please call 9555 9757 to book an appointment, then forward the following materials to workshops@nswwc.org.au by the deadline listed above:
- a one-page synopsis
- 15 pages of your manuscript (including first chapter) and
- a brief writing CV
Submitted manuscripts must be printed 1.5 or double spaced on one side of white A4 paper.
Cost: Members $150, Non-Members $190
To book please call (02) 9555 9757.
NICOLA O’SHEA is a freelance editor with 15 years of book publishing experience. She worked in-house at HarperCollins Publishers for many years; and as a freelance editor works for a range of publishers including HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Allen & Unwin, Random House, Hachette Australia. She also teaches editing at UTS and Sydney University.
SHARON RUNDLE co-edited Fear Factor Terror Incognito, a volume of short stories from Australia and the Indian sub-continent, Picador India (2009) Picador Australia (2010). Other published works are included in: Encounters -Modern Australian Short Stories; Desert in Bloom – Indian Women’s Fiction in English; Round Table Magic and Round Table Writing – Workbooks for Writers and Writing Groups. Sharon lectures at the University of Technology Sydney; edits the UTS Alumni Writers Connect and is Head of the UTS Alumni Writers’ Network. She runs the Round Table Writing Manuscript Service. She has taught English, Writing and IT subjects in Australia and the UK for over fifteen years. She has received a Commonwealth Short Story prize; UTS SMSA Medallion for Superior Academic Achievement and Adult Education Practice; two silver University of Delhi medallions and an award for over 15 years Service to the Learning Community. She has presented at workshops and conferences in Australia, UK and India. Sharon is a full professional member of the Institute of Professional Editors and the Society of Editors NSW Inc. Sharon’s visits to India are supported by the Commonwealth through the Australia-India Council which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Creative Industries' Career Fund of Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund.
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