CREATIVE PROS: Word Nerds

CREATIVE PROS #21: Writing Industry Forum

WORD NERDS: LAUNCH YOURSELF INTO WRITING!

Be the first to get WRITING trade secrets at this FREE Youth Forum! CREATIVE PROS is a careers & industry forum for young people – to assist you to take control of your creative future, find out industry hints and tips, network and get into action! WORD NERDS features professional speakers in an interactive seminar with discussion time, so you can get answers to all those burning questions about breaking into a career in writing! Find out how these WRITERS rose to their success:

ANTHONY KLAN
Anthony is an investigative journalist with The Australian. He joined the national investigations team after returning from a six-month secondment with The Wall Street Journal in New York. Klan is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and the holder of News Limited’s top honour, the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. Most recently, Klan was short-listed for the nation’s top journalism prize, the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.

LACHLAN WILLIAMS
Lachlan is a writer, journalist, comedian and copywriter from Sydney. He spent two years working on ZOO Weekly, Australia’s highest-selling blokes’ magazine. Before this he was a researcher and production manager at The Media Research Group – the media monitoring and analysis section of AAP. He’s written features for CLEO and AUSTAR magazines, and penned ads for MOTHER, Carlton Dry and EA Games. He’s a regular on the Sydney comedy circuit, and has performed at festivals around Australia as a comic, poet and member of The Bracket Creeps, Australia’s only poetry boyband. Yes, seriously.

MORE SPEAKERS TBA!

When: 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Wednesday 27 June 2012
Where: Customs House Library, Level 2 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay.
Age: Youth aged 15 – 26 yrs ONLY
Cost: FREE! RSVP is essential as space is limited to 45 participants.

Please RSVP to: ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or phone: 02 9245 1503.