Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 11 October
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Most journalists think they have a book in them – but making the transition from short pieces of journalism to 80,000 words or more is not simple, and many can’t complete the transition. In this workshop editor/journalist Sybil Nolan will give participants the benefits of her ten years in publishing. This is a professional workshop intended for professional journalists with a defined project. Special guests: Jo Chandler and Russell Robinson.
Featuring
Russell Robinson
Russell Robinson is an award-winning journalist who has worked in Melbourne, London and Hong Kong. Until recently he was an investigative reporter with the Herald Sun newspaper, focusing on crime. In August Pan Macmillan published Russell’s second book, Khaki Crims and Desperadoes, which traces the exploits of some of some of Australia’s best-known criminals and gangsters who served with the AIF during World War I.
His first book, Shotgun and Standover, co-authored with British writer James Morton, investigated the story of the violent crime group the Painters and Dockers.
Sybil Nolan
Sybil Nolan a lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne. Her career includes stints as a newspaper journalist/editor and as a commissioning editor at Melbourne University Publishing.
Nolan began her career as a newspaper journalist. She spent more than 15 years working in Australia and overseas, including seven years at the Age where her roles included foreign news editor, daily features editor and opinion editor.
In 2003, Sybil moved to book publishing as a commissioning editor at Melbourne University Publishing. From 2007 she worked as a freelance structural editor while completing her PhD in media and political history. Many of the authors she has worked with in the past decade come from journalism and media. They include Mark Dodd, Michael Gawenda, Charles Happell, Antony Loewenstein, Mary Moody, Russell Robinson, and the late Pamela Bone.
Jo Chandler
Jo Chandler is an award-winning freelance Australian journalist, author and editor. She has filed news and features from assignments across sub-Saharan Africa, Papua New Guinea, rural and remote Australia, Antarctica and Afghanistan. She has earned distinctions as an essayist, profile writer and narrative journalist, and is recognised across a range of specialty areas: science; environment; health; human rights; aid and development.
Jo teaches journalism at the University of Melbourne and is editor of The Citizen.
Jo worked for much of her career at the Age, culminating in roles as a Fairfax senior writer and roving national and international correspondent. In 2009 she earned a Walkley Award for commentary and analysis for articles generated by trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique.