LINKS FOR WRITERS: HELPFUL ORGANISATIONS FOR WRITERS LIKE YOU
NSW LITLINK WEBSITES
If you are a writer anywhere in Australia, it is highly recommended that you join your closest writers’ centre. This not only offers support to your writing endeavours but also provides you with the opportunity of a consultation with Varuna’s Creative Director, made available through the Macquarie Group Foundation LongLines and NSW LitLink programs.
Varuna is the administrator for NSW LitLink, the association of NSW Writers' Centres.
WRITERS’ CENTRES IN OTHER STATES
SOCIETIES OF EDITORS
AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
The peak professional association for Australia's literary creators.
COPYRIGHT AGENCY LTD
CAL is an Australian copyright management company whose role is to provide a bridge between creators and users of copyright material. CAL represents authors, journalists, visual artists, photographers and publishers as their non-exclusive agent to license the copying of their works to the general community.
THE LENDING RIGHT SCHEMES
Public Lending Right (PLR) makes payments to eligible Australian creators and publishers whose books are held in public lending libraries. ELR is for books held in educational libraries. If you are a book publisher or creator - author, compiler, editor, illustrator, translator - you may be eligible for a payment under PLR and/or ELR and you need to register with the scheme.
AUSTRALIAN LITERARY AGENTS ASSOCIATION
Provides a public presence and a point of contact for Australian literary agencies and their staff.
SYDNEY PEN
One of three Australian PEN Centres, each part of an international network of 144 PEN centres. International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, exists to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and world culture; to promote literature in a variety of ways, including by opposing restraints on freedom of expression and working to promote literacy itself; and to act as a powerful voice on behalf of writers harassed, imprisoned and sometimes killed for their views.
