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Rethinking your road to publication

Prizes, grants, and development opportunities

  • ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Applying for prizes, grants, and development opportunities can be a beneficial way to get your work in front of publishers, receive financial or professional support to develop a manuscript, and gain valuable exposure for yourself and your work. Yet these opportunities are often overlooked in favour of the general submission process or pitching events.  

Learn how you can pinpoint and apply for suitable opportunities like unpublished manuscript prizes, fellowships, grants, and residencies from author Ayesha Inoon, who has successfully navigated alternative paths to publication. Ayesha’s debut novel, Untethered, won the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize, and an early draft was supported by the inaugural Penguin Random House Write It Fellowship in 2019. In 2020, she was selected for the Rosie Scott Writing Residency in NSW, and in 2022 she was awarded a KSP Fellowship by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in WA to work on her second novel, due to be published in 2026. 

Join Ayesha to hear about how she found success through a layered approach to development, funding, and publishing opportunities, and explore:

  • The myth of the single path to publication and why it’s worth exploring alternative options
  • How you can approach prizes, fellowships, grants, and residencies as a way to build visibility as a writer
  • The importance of actively engaging in the literary community through writing groups, book launches, festivals, and events to build genuine relationships and professional presence
  • What position you and your manuscript need to be in before you start submitting
  • Tailoring your pitch, synopsis, and submission to each opportunity, and learning from each attempt

If you’re currently preparing to submit your manuscript to publishers or agents, or you’ve already exhausted that avenue and now feel unsure of your next steps, this one-hour session will help you rethink and broaden your approach, and teach you the different steps you can take to get closer to your ultimate publishing goal.

There will be time for questions.

Who is this for?

  • Early-career authors seeking guidance on how to identify and apply for manuscript development, funding, and publication opportunities
  • Authors undertaking the general submission process, who want to learn about different opportunities available to them
  • Authors curious about the benefits of prizes, fellowships, grants, and residencies, and how these opportunities can help them achieve their publishing goals

About the presenter

Ayesha Inoon
Ayesha Inoon
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