Liminal & Writers SA Editorial Mentorship 2022 recipients announced
The recipients of the inaugural Liminal & Writers SA 2022 Editorial Mentorship for emerging Asian-Australian editors in South Australia have been announced.
Lyn Dickens will undertake a fiction mentorship with Elizabeth Flux and Smriti Daniel will undertake a nonfiction mentorship with Cher Tan. Tamara Kate Wilson was highly commended in the nonfiction category.
The two emerging editors will work with Flux and Tan for hands-on experience editing Liminal’s first South Australian series, a digital publication to be published in 2022 at the OzAsia Festival, with writers to be announced later this year. Each mentee will learn how to edit and shape pieces for digital publication, as well as receive feedback and guidance throughout the entire editorial process.
Dickens is a co-founder of new South Australian literary journal The Saltbush Review and a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Adelaide. ‘I am a great admirer of Liminal‘s work and I am thrilled to join the Writers SA x Liminal Editorial Mentorship program in 2022,’ she said. ‘I look forward to learning from the editorial team at Liminal, and to supporting Asian Australian voices in South Australia by co-editing this fantastic series.’
Daniel, an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in Al Jazeera, Reuters, Motherboard, the Atlantic‘s CityLab and the Sunday Times, said, ‘I’ve been a writer my whole career, and learning to edit feels like a very natural next step. The best editors I’ve ever had were the ones who helped clarify my voice, asked the right questions and always, always had my back—I want to learn how to be that person for someone else.’
‘It is a privilege for us to work with Liminal to offer this singular opportunity to two bright, emerging editors to learn from some of the best in the business,’ said Writers SA director Jessica Alice. ‘We can’t wait to see the great work Smriti and Lyn develop in this new publication.’
Pictured L–R: Dickens, Daniel
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