COMP CLOSED: What is 2018’s most important date?

This week, a giveaway for the organised (or hoping to be organised!) writer. It’s Pilot 2018 – A Diary for Writers!

Stuffed to the gills with writerly wisdom, Pilot 2018 is the essential writer’s resource. It not only features industry advice from Island, Griffith Review, Brief, Rabbit, Poetry New Zealand and Lip but also contains weekly writing tips, prompts and encouragement from Australia and New Zealand’s most exciting authors, poets, playwrights, journalists and critics.

It’s the perfect tool to keep on track with your writing goals. But wait – there’s more! For the practical creative there are monthly writing exercises, more than 200 writing competitions, festivals and awards, tips on manuscript layout, submission, grammar, punctuation, editing and style, and an A–Z of essential resources for writers.

Okay, we’re sold. And you can be too, simply by telling us what date in 2018 will be the most important and why? (in 25 words or fewer). We have two diaries to give away, so you guessed it – our favourite two will win!

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR YOUR ENTRIES! WINNERS WILL BE EMAILED AND ANNOUNCED IN OUR NEWSLETTER.

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