‘Island’ launches mentoring program

2 September 2014 Books+Publishing

Literary journal Island has announced the launch of the WD Booth Charitable Trust/Island Emerging Writer Mentoring Program to ‘build the resilience and capacity of the writing sector in Tasmania’.

The program will offer ‘emerging writers mentoring from established industry practitioners’ and ‘the opportunity to produce a major piece of publisher-ready writing’. It includes publication in Island, for which the writer will be paid.

Up to five scholarships are available to Tasmania-based writers, who will be paired with mentors for approximately four meetings. The mentors are Geordie Williamson, fiction editor of Island and chief literary critic at the Australian; Sarah Holland-Batt, poet and poetry editor of Island; Matthew Lamb, editor of Island and the Review of Australian Fiction; and novelist and critic James Bradley.

The successful applicants will be chosen by the mentors.

See the Island website here for more information.

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