Writing and Publishing

Just spent a happy day with our students (NMIT - Melbourne) who have finished their studies for the year by launching their anthology - Kaleidoscope. The degree I manage is Writing and Publishing so it goes from the creative idea, through the drafting, through to publication. We have online publications too (www.nmit.edu.au/ybp) but there is nothing quite like hard copy to stir excitement. Students read and we shared food. My little speech was about writer voice, which is probably all any of us have in the end; the way of telling a story that is uniquely ours. As I said to the students, all types of stories have been told thousands of times (perhaps millions) but not from their heart and soul.