The Next Chapter mentors announced

Thursday, 29 November 2018 Books+Publishing

The recipients of the 2018 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, each worth $15,000, have been matched with their mentors, who will work with them over 12 months to help connect them with publishers and readers.

The mentors are:

Tony Birch will mentor poet Evelyn Araluen
Michele Lee will mentor memoirist Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Maria Tumarkin will mentor memoirist Jean Bachoura
Nam Le will mentor short fiction writer Ennis Cehic
Alison Whittaker will mentor nonfiction writer Nayuka Gorrie
Rebecca Lim will mentor young adult speculative fiction writer Lian Low
Sisonke Msimang will mentor memoirist Yamiko Marama
Nick Earls will mentor comic fiction writer Ara Sarafian
Melissa Lucashenko will mentor young adult fiction writer Adrian Stanley
Cate Kennedy will mentor short fiction writer Adam Thompson.

The 10 recipients are currently participating in a four-day intensive at Varuna, The Writers House, in Katoomba, New South Wales.

For more information, see the Next Chapter website.

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