The The NSW Writers' Centre

Mentors – Self-help

Laura Daniel has been involved in writing, editing, and other aspects of publishing on and off for more than forty years, since 1968, and has worked with a wide variety of material. Writing under various names, she has authored books and articles on history, social and cultural issues, nature, and travel, and has contributed to several encyclopaedias and partworks, writing in a range of genres and on a wide range of subjects including nature, history, philosophy, religion, cooking, and a plethora of trivia. As an editor and mentor in manuscript development, she has worked on both fiction and non-fiction books and magazine articles. In fiction, she has worked across many genres from romance through adventure to religious and philosophical fiction.

Laura is available to work in person as well as via email and Skype.

Diana Giese has worked for publishers large and small, including Macmillan, Oxford University Press, HarperEducational and Brandl & Schlesinger, in Australia and overseas. She has collaborated with many writers to help them develop their best possible work, and produced and promoted prize-winners and excellent sellers. She is the author of six books, including Astronauts, Lost Souls and Dragons (University of Queensland Press), Beyond Chinatown (National Library of Australia) and A better place to live (Freshwater Bay Press). She has also worked as a literary journalist for major newspapers and ABC radio, and served on writers’ festival and prize committees. Diana is ready to help you write, produce and market memoirs, fiction and history, across a table or via phone and email, from Sydney. www.dianagiese.com.au

Diana is available to work in person as well as via phone or email.

Sharon Rundle co-edited Fear Factor: Terror Incognito, Indo-Australian short stories, Picador India (2009) Picador Australia (2010). She co-edited, Peacock Memosaic, a new media collection of stories (2010). Sharon edits the University of Technology Sydney quarterly Journal Writers Connect and is head of the UTS Alumni Writers’ Network. She has published and broadcast stories, essays and articles in Australia and internationally including in: Encounters: Modern Australian Short Stories and Desert in Bloom – Indian Women’s Fiction in English. She is co-author of Round Table Writing and author of Changes & Chances. She is an academic at the University of Technology Sydney and has taught English, Writing and IT subjects for Higher Education institutions in Australia and the UK for eighteen years. She was awarded the 2010 UTS Alumni Award for Excellence; the UTS SMSA Medallion; and a Commonwealth Short Story prize. www.roundtablewriting.com

Sharon is available to work in person as well as via phone or email.