GRLCEvents

1.30pm to 3.00pm

Wurdi Youang, Level 5, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre, 51 Little Malop Street, Geelong

This wonderful group of 2022 publishing fiction authors will share their creative pathways to publication, offering insight and suggestions into the many different ways that authors can reach the stage of publication. Led by Facilitator Abigayle Carmody, a writer with over twenty years’ experience, our local authors will share aspects of their writing life and what inspires them, what keeps them going, the challenges they face and how they tackle them.

Tickets – $20; $10 for GRLC Members

Audience questions welcomed. Book sales and book signings will be offered at the conclusion of the event.
About the presenters: Ellie O’Neill is an Irish Australian author. She writes fiction and is the author of four books, including her 2014 novel Reluctantly Charmed which was a top ten Australian debut and a bestseller. Her new novel, Family Matters (Allen & Unwin) was released in June 2022.

D.L. Hicks is a crime fiction author and a former police officer with 25 years’ experience. His second novel, The Fallback (Pantera Press) was published in May 2022. Miranda Luby is a Text Prize-shortlisted debut author, journalist and copywriter. Her Young Adult book Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over (Text Publishing) will be published in August 2022.

Abigayle Carmody is a writer who lives on the Bellarine Peninsula. Her manuscript, Dancing in Half Circles, was shortlisted for a WA literary award and her story Love, Loss and Jam Tarts was selected as part of the Perth International Writers Festival Human Library.