In Your Own Words
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is calling on its members to create and submit videos on the theme of authorship to its YouTube channel.
Do you have advice or experience to share? Thoughts about the book industry's future, or its past? If so, the ASA wants to hear from you.
The society is not looking for clips that promote you or your work, but for pieces that are reflective (such as Sophie Masson’s Letter from a Novelist to Her Younger Self), advisory (such as Digital Rights by Alex Adsett), or otherwise related to authorship. The aim is for submitted clips to be of use to other writers.
Films can be simple piece-to-camera works or multimedia presentations. Size is capped, with three minutes the maximum acceptable length. Any images and music used in clips must either belong to you, the creator, or be free of copyright restrictions. The ASA states that all copyright in the videos will reside with authors. ASA members should submit videos as a compressed zip file in m4v format, along with name, phone number and membership number to jacqui@asauthors.org.