The Next Chapter mentors announced

The recipients of the 2018 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, each worth $15,000, have been matched with their mentors, who will work with them over 12 months to help connect them with publishers and readers.

The mentors are:

• Tony Birch will mentor poet Evelyn Araluen
• Michele Lee will mentor memoirist Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
• Maria Tumarkin will mentor memoirist Jean Bachoura
• Nam Le will mentor short fiction writer Ennis Cehic
• Alison Whittaker will mentor nonfiction writer Nayuka Gorrie
• Rebecca Lim will mentor young adult speculative fiction writer Lian Low
• Sisonke Msimang will mentor memoirist Yamiko Marama
• Nick Earls will mentor comic fiction writer Ara Sarafian
• Melissa Lucashenko will mentor young adult fiction writer Adrian Stanley
• Cate Kennedy will mentor short fiction writer Adam Thompson.

The 10 recipients are currently participating in a four-day intensive at Varuna, The Writers House, in Katoomba, New South Wales.

For more information, see the Next Chapter website.

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