UTS Writers' Anthology

uh as far as i recall i think we were

talking about the

the process and and the difficulties of

getting published and drusilla majestic

came up with the idea of an anthology

because she thought it would also be

good training in in editing and looking

at other people's work um critically

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they choose the content

and that content is chosen without

knowing the names of any of the

any of the contributors from

from a year's worth of work that

students submit they make all the

editorial decisions they come up with

the title of the journal they talk about

covers with the designers

they

edit the work and then they're

responsible for the launch um and or

multiple launches sometimes it's they're

really responsible for the full process

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it was definitely more than i expected

it's not just being an editor in the

committee it's also

taking on marketing taking on social

media pr

um and working kind of throughout the

whole year throughout the publishing

process it was it was so fascinating to

see the breadth of talent that uts has

and that's available for uts students

and it was just absolutely fantastic to

be able to read all of that and see that

yeah it was so exciting to

find out that the work was was accepted

i feel like with writing

a lot of the time you're kind of writing

something by yourself in your room often

not that many people read what you've

written so the fact that i'd written

these stories that were going to be

published in a book was very exciting um

yeah i can't wait to for it to come out

i do remember one

memorable launch it was this

one actually i think

what you do and don't want

one of the students who published a

piece sam twyford moore

had written a piece that referenced the

author frank morehouse so i invited

frank morehouse if he to see if he'd

come and launch it and thinking he

absolutely wouldn't but he did

oh my god

oh

i thought this was only going to be

electronic

oh my god

oh present thank you oh wow

i ran riding workshops out at

eastwood

public school

and

a student enrolled in

year four i think

uh there and continued uh studying

writing with me through to year 12

and then came here to uts and where is

she

and

in here she's late for lunch

what i'm seeing is

that

i am among

friends

in in this one i feel connected with

both of these

thank you the uts writers anthology

continues to be one of the most exciting

public displays of the outstanding

student works that emerge from faster's

world-class writing program and i'm

immensely proud to be here to witness

the celebration of its 40-year history

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