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Learn how to write a winning pitch for your narrative nonfiction proposal. Writers and publishers, Ronnie Scott, Arwen Summers and Emily Clements, take you through the most important steps: how to write a synopsis and chapter outline, what to include in your sample chapter, how to stand out with your title and biography, and how to finish it off (formatting and polishing).

Guest Biographies

Ronnie Scott is an author and academic. He is a senior lecturer in the writing and publishing discipline at RMIT University and program manager of the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing). He's a lead researcher on Folio: The Story of Australian Comics 1980-2020. His novel The Adversary (2020) was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal.

Arwen Summers is Hardie Grant Books' nonfiction publisher. She has over 13 years' experience in publishing and has a particular interest in narrative nonfiction. She's published authors, both established and debut, including Alanna Hill, Malcolm Turnbull, Emily Clements, Clive Hamilton and Ginger Gorman. Discovering and nurturing fantastic emerging writers of narrative nonfiction is one of the highlights of her job.

RMIT alumni, author and editor Emily Clements published her memoir, The Lotus Eaters, in 2020. Her nonfiction has been shortlisted for the Feminazi Memoir Prize, the Ada Cambridge Prize and highly recommended for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her fiction has been twice shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize and earned the Melbourne Young Writers Award.

Host: Callie Beuermann

Producers: Callie Beuermann, Joel Humphries, Sophie Newnham and Mia Purvis

Supervising producer: Carly Godden