Between the Lines is a facilitated online book group for writers presented by ACTW.

APPLICATION DEADLINE - FRIDAY 1st JULY

Applications are now open for the ACT Writers flagship initiative Between the Lines. Now in it’s sixth year, the program consists of six (6), monthly sessions running from July to December.

Award-winning authors Patrick Mullins and Kathryn Hind will facilitate the 2022 program, leading participants through a series of conversations about a selection of carefully curated books. Particular focus will be paid on authorial technique, achievement and literary context, rather than subjective opinions.

Each session will include time for questions, and participants will be encouraged to consider how the reading could influence their own work.

FACILITATORS

Patrick Mullins is a Canberra-based writer and author of three books: Tiberius with a Telephone (2018), which won the 2020 National Biography Award and 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; The Trials of Portnoy (2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; and, with Matthew Ricketson, Who needs the ABC?: Why taking it for granted is no longer an option (2022).

This is Patrick’s third year facilitating Between the Lines.

Kathryn Hind was born in Canberra and has now returned there after living for five years in the UK. In 2018 she was awarded the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize for the manuscript of Hitch, and the manuscript was published by Penguin Random House in 2019. The novel went on to win a Canberra Critics Circle Award and the 2020 Betty Trask Award. She is currently working on her second novel as part of a PhD at Australian National University.