Meet Louise

I love finding a hidden history and writing about it, and I also love helping authors to find or use their own unique voices to tell their stories too.

I only work with human-generated content and human authors and do not work on AI-generated projects. Why? Because a person’s voice is unique and that’s what people relate too – something that is absent from AI-generated work.

I’ve worked with a number of small and independent presses, and served on several committees for writing and editing organisations. I’ve judged literary awards in numerous categories, and have been a mentorship coordinator for both the Australasian Horror Writers Association and the Institute of Professional Editors.

My publications are diverse, and some are available free to read online.

Qualifications, training and participation at industry-specific events

Tertiary

2015 Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, Melbourne Polytechnic

OTHER

2022 Conflux Speculative Fiction Convention (panellist and attendee)
2022 AHWA Shadows Awards judge, poetry
2021 Structural Editing Masterclass, Susan Keogh
2021 AHWA Shadows Awards judge, novella
2020 AHWA Mentorship, Kaaron Warren
2020 AHWA Shadows Awards judge, collections
2019 Continuum and Natcon, Melbourne
2019 AHWA Shadows Awards judge, short story
2018 Genrecon, Brisbane
2018 Continuum, Melbourne
2018 Fiction editing workshop, Editors South Australia, Louise Thurtell
2017 Writing a non-boring family history, Hazel Edwards
2017 Structural editing for fiction, Nicola O’Shea
2017 Self-publishing: all you need to know, Euan Mitchell
2017 English Grammar and Style, edX, Write 101x, University of Queensland
2016 Mentors’ workshop, IPEd, Elizabeth Murphy and Edwin Briggs
2016 Introduction to structural editing, Editors Victoria, Susan Keogh