#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
So, you’re polishing off your YA draft manuscript. Are you wondering what next? What’s hot and what’s not? Come listen to our panel of commissioning editors from publishing houses with stellar YA lists — Hachette, PRH, and A&U. Listen as they discuss with literary agent, author and YA aficionado, Danielle Binks on what they look for in the next manuscript, and what the trends are in Australia and overseas. A not to be missed session for all those writing YA.
This session is available to watch below, or over on our YouTube channel.
#Artist
Danielle Binks
Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management. In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin, an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+). The Year the Maps Changed, Danielle’s bestselling middle-grade novel, was a 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book. And her 2021 YA novel The Monster of Her Age won in the Young Adult category of the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Her new middle grade novel out in 2023 is Six Summers of Tash & Leopold. Danielle is also teaching Fiction & Young Adult Writing in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.







