CEO Alison Green featured at WestWords (Dubbo Writers Festival)
Pantera Press
We are delighted to share with you that our CEO Alison Green will be at the festival 9-11 May in Dubbo. Click here to see the program.
Saturday 10 May:
10am — 10.45am Alison will be on a panel with Anna Valdinger (Harger Collins), Louise Thurtell (Allen and Unwin), local authors Alissa Callen and Pat Clarke chaired by Irina Dunn as they share the many pathways to publication. (Free event, booking needed)
11am-5pm PITCHING OPPORTUNITIES. Six 20 minute one-on-one pitching sessions are being offered with Alison over the course of the day for authors. (Free event, booking essential) **The WestWords website notes that this event will cost $20. However, this is not the case. The $20 will be refunded at WestWords. As a publisher welcoming (and actively seeking) unsolicited manuscripts from talented new Australian writers we would not want a fee to be charged to any aspiring authors. NB. This cost change is only for the one-on-one pitch sessions with Alison/Pantera Press. The rest of the program will remain as listed on the website.
Sunday 11 May:
10am – 11am Alison will be on a ‘suriving submissions spur’ panel with Louise Thurtell, Anna Valdinger, Jennifer Mosher and Irina Dunn. Authors will have their first chapter read out louf to this panel of publishers. How long will it survive before all four panellists say STOP? Valuable, on the spot feedback from publishers. (Free event, booking needed)
11am – 11.45am Alison will join Louise Thurtell, Anna Valdinger, Jennifer Mosher, Alissa Callen and Irina Dunn on a panel discussing if there is a future for rural stories. (Free event, booking needed)
12pm-12.45pm Alison will discuss the importance of web prescense and why authors should invest time on social media. She will be joined by Louise Thurtell, Anna Valdinger, Jennifer Mosher, Alissa Callen and Irina Dunn. (Free event, booking needed)