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INDUSTRY PANEL | WRITE ADVICE - THINGS WE WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD US

Sat 26 Sep 2026 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square, 2150

INDUSTRY PANEL | WRITE ADVICE - THINGS WE WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD US

Sat 26 Sep 2026 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square, 2150

WRITE ADVICE - Things We Wish Someone Had Told Us

Join us for an industry panel about working in Australian writing.

How do you actually build a life working with books, writers and ideas? And what do people working at the top of the literary sector know now that they really wish someone had told them earlier?

Parramatta’s Lit! brings together a lively collection of writers and industry leaders for a candid, practical — and hopefully very funny — conversation about how the literary world really works. In conversation with Valerie Chidiac is Leo Tanoi, Erin Taylor, James Elazzi.

Expect useful advice, strong opinions, mistakes survived, opportunities missed and taken, things nobody puts in the funding application, and some frank discussion about money, relationships, reputation, resilience and making a career in an industry that doesn't always come with a map.

What matters? What doesn't? Who should you talk to? What should you stop worrying about? And what do our literary leaders wish emerging writers and arts workers knew?Come for the industry intelligence. Stay for the stories they probably shouldn't be telling you.


Saturday 26 September 2026

3:00pm - 4:00pm

PHIVE, Parramatta

FREE

Location

PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square, 2150