AustLit

‘In 2004 the Literature Board funded the third biennial Residential Editorial Program (REP), at Varuna in the Blue Mountains.These intensive courses have been immensely successful, with groups of a dozen book editors working with mentors such as Jacqueline Kent, Bruce Sims, Meredith Rose, Sophie Cunningham and Judith Lukin-Amundsen to develop unpublished fiction manuscripts. Editing Indigenous work has been a particular focus at all three programs, and participants have universally expressed their appreciation of the sessions run by Indigenous editors and writers such as Mary Graham, Josie Douglas, Melissa Lucashenko and Anita Heiss. Bruce Sims and Meredith Rose were also able to report on their experiences (working with Magabala Books), as was Sue Abbey for University of Queensland Press.’(Introduction 189)