Introducing the Poets of Toolkits!

We’re stoked to be kicking off Toolkits: Poetry with eight exciting young poets and poets-to-be from across Australia. Ready to meet them? Say hello to…

Pitch Perfect: Your Guide to Writing the Perfect Pitch

You’re a young writer, looking to get some more experience and exposure. You’re thinking of submitting your work to a publication. What do you do?
You pitch of course!
Here are our tips and tricks for pitching:

Applications Open: The Under Age

Calling all young Victorian journalists! We’re on the hunt for five young writers to join The Under Age team for 2015.

Express Media appoints new CEO

Express Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Pippa Bainbridge as its new Chief Executive Officer and General Manager. Pippa has served as the Company Manager and Creative Producer at La Mama Theatre, and studied arts management at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. “I am thrilled to be joining an organisation with […]

NYWM: Day 30

  The end of June is actually upon us! First and foremost, we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride and found all of our posts invaluable and helpful to your blossoming writing careers. For the last post, we thought it might be a great idea to give you a whole bunch of awesome resources to submit […]

NYWM: Day 29

It’s two days before the end of June, and the end of National Young Writers Month! Today’s post is for all the worry warts out there, especially to those worrying that won’t be able to meet their NYWM deadlines. You have to bear in mind that goals are a motivational technique in itself – if […]

NYWM: Day 28

We’ve discussed planning the novel and how to get that amazing first sentence to get the ball rolling, but what happens when you’re near the end but you don’t know how to end it? Like the beginning of your written piece, the ending is just as difficult to write. You have to be able to […]

NYWM: Day 27

Let’s be honest, goals can be difficult to maintain let alone fully complete before a deadline, so what do you do to stay motivated when trying to achieve your writing goals? Many of you should be towards the end of their writing goals, so we thought we might give you so more motivational pep talks […]

NYWM Writer Profile: Victoria Nugent

Name: Victoria Nugent Age: 25 State: New South Wales What is your NYWM goal? I plan to take part in Pitch, Bitch each week, complete two short stories and attempt to revive a moribund blog. What kind of writing do you do? I’m a journalist by day. Outside of work hours I write everything from […]