Successes! Best part first. Please welcome Tina Strachan and Zewlan Moor to the CYA Success family. Click on their picture below to read...

Margrete Lamond is an author, editor, publisher, and independent story-coach and will be leading an illustrators' bootcamp on 24 July.

Freya Blackwood will run an illustrators' bootcamp at #CYA2022.

The recording of Saturday's session about getting your assessment and bootcamp submissions ready is available on the Videos page

A very quick reminder that the online session to help you get your assessment and bootcamp submissions ready is this morning at 10 am...

We've got another nine editors open for assessments (bring the count to 28 wonderful people to choose from) and two more bootcamp leaders.

Well the list keeps growing. Bookings for assessments with Michelle Madden (Penguin Random House), Sophie Hamley (Hachette), Felicity...

More editors, more bootcamps, more news

Round one of assessments & bootcamps bookings opens today at 11 am AEST

Dates for CYA 2022

Week one done and dusted.

Elise Jones Bootcamp Rescheduled

Clair Hume from UQP has one assessment place left on Sunday 25th July if anyone is interested. Work will need to be in by Monday.

Only 3 picture book places left for the bootcamps next weekend. If you're interested head to www.cyaconference.com/bootcamp reserve you...

See who's on the 2021 CYA Success Panel

Ever wondered what an editor actually does? You’re not alone. Here are some of the questions Luna's been asked over the years.

We've had two bootcamp cancellations, meaning there's a picture book place available with Clair Hallifax on 10 July, and picture book...

She's going to be presenting a session about Killer Conflict on Sunday, 11 July. running a bootcamp on Saturday, 10 July, for writers of...

We're super excited to announce that Matt Stanton will be presenting on Saturday, 24 July 2021, 9:00 am AEST. Matt is a bestselling...

Sue Whiting will be doing assessments and bootcamps at CYA 2021 on the 3rd and 4th July