Michelle Meaby's story won second place in Voices on the Coast children's Literary Festival Competition. She is workign withLeonie Tyle from UQP to develop this story.

Donna Hanson's 'Dragon Wine' has been selected for a Varuna Manuscript Development.


EnVision attendee Jason Nahrung is among the first four Australian writers to have books selected for Lothian Books' new Dark Suspense series. His manuscript, The Darkness Within, was workshopped at EnVision in 2004. The story was originally conceived as an email exchange between Jason and his partner Mil when they were courting, he in Brisbane and she in Melbourne. He rewrote and expanded the resulting novella, then polished it at EnVision and through his Writers on the Edge critique group (founded by fellow EnVisionaries). Lothian expects to publish the first four books in June-August, 2006.





Kylie Chan .... the first book of my 'Xuan Wu' trilogy - 'Xuan Tian:Dark Heavens' was requested by Stephanie Smith of Harper-Collins on the strength of a chapter I presented at a meeting in the Queensland Writers Centre. The Envision manuscript development service definitely helped me to produce a manuscript that the publisher has found worthy of consideration. 

Maree Kimberley .... my YA book 'Rat City' received a Commended in the FAW Jim Hamilton Award for unpublished manuscript. Pan Macmillan have asked to see the full manuscript on the strength of the first three chaptersl

Chris McMahon ... my fantasy novella "Flight of the Phoenix"was published by Silver Lake Publishing in the US (silverlakepublishing.com) as one of the stories in their  "Fantasy Readers Wanted -- Apply Within" Quest anthology late last year. This is part of SLP's "Fantastic Quest Stories from the Enchanted Realms" series. The story itself is set 30yrs prior to the start of my fantasy novel,The Calvanni,on the world of Yos.

Kaaren Sutcliffe ... the first book of my fantasy trilogy was launched on 22 April, 2004. The second book in the series, Kered’s Call, is anticipated in early October 2004. The launch of Book One will be hard to top!

For more information about Kaaren and the series, visit: www.kaarensbooks.com Kaaren has a 3 book deal for Kered, 2 book deal for Pegasus plus 3 primary school books - 2 horsey ones and a collection of 4 fantasies for upper primary.

Brett Buckley ... my story 'Groundling Rescue' was runnerup in the Ipswich Children's Literature Festival.