The Queensland Writers Centre and Hachette Australian Manuscript Development Program has been created for emerging Australian authors of strong commercial fiction who are either unpublished or have no more than one significant work commercially published.
The successful applicants will work with publishers, literary agents and booksellers to develop high-quality fiction manuscripts.
The program will run for five days at a retreat location in south-east Queensland in November 2009.
Queensland Writers Centre and Hachette Australia congratulate the successful applicants, as well as the long list, for their high-quality work.
We'd like to thank all applicants for their participation in and support of the QWC/ Hachette Manuscript Development Program for Fiction Writers. For those applicants who weren't selected, we encourage you to apply for future programs, and to keep writing.
This program is an initiative of Queensland Writers Centre and Hachette Australia, and is funded through Arts Queensland as part of the Queensland Writer Development Strategy.
2009 Successful Applicants
Bronwyn Rodden
Boyd Anderson
Meaghan Douglas
Jane E Jago
Meg Vann
Kay Harrison
Fiona McMillan
Kathy Sharpe
Electronic submissions will not be accepted or responded to. Hachette Australia does not guarantee publication of manuscripts selected for the program but reserves first rights to publish the selected manuscripts. Full terms and conditions are available as part of the application materials available from Queensland Writers Centre.
This program is a partnership initiative of QWC and Hachette Australia, supported by Arts Queensland