A number of self-published Australian authors, including Dionne Lister, A B Patterson and Lisa Fleetwood have pledged their support for a campaign to have self-publishing recognised and included in Australian literary festival programming.<\/p>\n
The #SelfPubIsHere campaign, started by authors Pauline Findlay and Robin Elizabeth, grew out of a Facebook self-publishing group post that expressed frustration at the lack of programming related to self-publishing at the recent Sydney Writers\u2019 Festival. A plan was made to \u2018make some noise\u2019 on Friday 11 May to \u2018amplify\u2019 self-publisher voices by creating or sharing blog posts and opinion pieces under the #SelfPubIsHere banner on social media.<\/p>\n
Campaign activity has so far included Robin Elizabeth\u2019s proposal for a\u00a0self-publishing festival<\/a>\u00a0in a blog post that was later shared on Twitter by publishing consultant and NSW Writers\u2019 Centre board member Joel Naoum, who\u00a0made a call out<\/a>\u00a0to start the conversation with other interested parties.<\/p>\n In another blog post, author Lisa Fleetwood said that a self-publishing festival would give self-published authors a much needed avenue to\u00a0connect with their readers<\/a>; while author Pauline Findlay wrote about how literary festivals\u00a0missed opportunities<\/a>\u00a0to engage with self-published authors and find new sponsors.<\/p>\n Several other authors, including Lola Lowe, Maureen Flynn, Alison Croggon and Ellie Marney, also pledged to help raise the profile of the campaign that hopes to \u2018let people know that self-publishing it is out of its infancy,\u2019 and to turn #SelfPubIsHere into an official network.<\/p>\n \u2018Our aim is to make festivals, writers\u2019 centers and awards aware that we\u2019re now bigger than a one-off panel or to be blocked from eligibility. And to let them know that people actually want to see us. It\u2019s profitable to put us on your programs,\u2019 said the campaign organisers.<\/p>\n \u2018Friday was our launching point and from there a lot of authors have exciting ideas as to directions they\u2019d like to take this and how to formalise things. We\u2019ll keep shouting #SelfPubIsHere until we\u2019re heard.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A number of self-published Australian authors, including Dionne Lister, A B Patterson and Lisa Fleetwood have pledged their support for a campaign to have self-publishing recognised and included in Australian literary festival programming. The #SelfPubIsHere campaign, started by authors Pauline Findlay and Robin Elizabeth, grew out of a Facebook self-publishing group post that expressed frustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,40,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}