There’s something especially wonderful about catching up with fellow writers. As Kate Eltham, former CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre and now Director of the Brisbane Writers Festival, says, it’s so good to find your “tribe”. A lot of writers today belong to several “tribes”, with some writing sub-genres that cross two or sometimes more genres, and others writing in different genres, sometimes with different author names.
GenreCon was Kate’s brainchild, and when she left the Queensland Writers Centre she passed the mantle to the new CEO, Meg Vann, who has very capably brought the event to fruition. GenreCon is the conference for Australian genre writers and is presented by the Australian Writers Marketplace.
We writers are an odd bunch – seldom do we look at people in the street or read newspapers or watch television without thinking about how we might be able to use what we see in a story somehow, somewhere. Kind of scarey, when you think about it. We then ask ourselves the “What if?” question that leads our minds onto different ideas and different paths.
I sometimes wonder if readers would like to take a peek inside a writer’s mind 🙂