Emerging Women Writers for aspiring ladies soccer writers
The Emerging Women Writers program is a chance for feminine soccer writers who should not established as authors to have authentic work printed
— Bonita Mersiades
SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA, September 29, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Aspiring feminine soccer writers have the possibility to be printed in a brand new anthology because of an initiative being launched this week.
The Football Writers Festival in Australia is launching the Emerging Women Writers program to coincide with Australia and New Zealand co-hosting the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
The program is a chance for feminine writers who should not but established as authors to have an authentic, beforehand unpublished work to be circulated as a part of an anthology of tales to be accessible on the 2023 Football Writers Festival.
Football Writers Festival founder, Bonita Mersiades, stated “Our newly launched Emerging Women Writers program offers a unique chance for aspiring women writers to springboard their career in sports media.
“Coinciding with the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand – which is set to be record-breaking following the outstanding rise the game has seen thanks to Euro 2022 – the competition is a great chance to champion a break-out female star in football journalism and to nurture new writing talent from across the globe.”
Writers are invited to submit a long-form story of between 3,000 and 5,000 phrases on any football-related subject, equivalent to an interview or profile of a person or people, a membership story, a brief historical past of a membership or an occasion, a dive right into a soccer politics concern, a piece of fiction, commentary, evaluation, an investigative piece, a poem, or a first-person story.
Up to twenty entries shall be included within the anthology entitled Hear Us Roar – Stories from Women of Football, a e book to be launched at subsequent yr’s Football Writers Festival. Three of the rising writers will even be invited to Australia to attend and communicate on the Festival.
The judging panel for the entries consists of present and former journalists from Australia, the UK, Nigeria and Trinidad and Tobago in addition to Mersiades, a writer in addition to three-times writer of soccer books.
The fourth iteration of the Football Writers Festival is being held in Tar-Ra, the cultural precinct of Sydney, also called Walsh Bay, from July 15-17 2023, days forward of the opening of the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
The Football Writers Festival is an initiative of Fair Play Publishing, a small publishing home in Australia focussed on soccer, supported by the Johnny Warren Football Foundation.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
About the Football Writers Festival
Launched in 2019, the Football Writers Festival is greater than soccer, and greater than writing and studying. It helps put the ‘recreation of opinions’ into motion in a enjoyable, relaxed and stimulating surroundings with different individuals who know and love soccer.
It goals to carry collectively a melting pot of authors, writers, readers, and voices in a Festival that encourages and evokes significant debate and dialogue.
The 2023 Festival shall be held from Fifteenth-Seventeenth July in Tar-Ra (the Indigenous title for Walsh Bay), within the cultural precinct of Sydney, days forward of the opening match in Australia of the co-hosted 2023 Women’s World Cup.
The Football Writers Festival is an initiative of Fair Play Publishing with the help of founding associate, the Johnny Warren Football Foundation.
For extra details about Football Writers Festival, go to https://www.footballwritersfestival.com.au/
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