Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Heading for Gold


The lineup has just been announced for Spinning Gold, The Wellington Children's Book Association New Zealand Children’s Book Writing and Illustration conference to be held this September. Speakers Include; Martin Baynton, Kate De Goldi and writers’ agent Fiona Inglis from Australia.

Amongst the programme’s ten workshops, master classes, panel discussions, and mystery trips is a novel cross between speed dating and Dragons’ Den - a Pitch Slam where writers and illustrators get the opportunity to pitch their work, for just five minutes, to publishers and agents.

All in all in this time of recession the $300 cost is incredibly reasonable since it also covers all lunches, breaks and dinners for the two and a half day Wellington conference.

Registration is now open via email (the.wcba@gmail.com.) but be quick as space is limited to 80 attendees.


image by monikahoinkis

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is a weird bvook

THE WCBA said...

Registrations not quite open yet! Keep a look out on the blog for more info next week.