Are you a budding first time writer? An up and coming literary talent? An established wordsmith? Popular Cornwall-based reading night Telltales is branching out into publishing and it's looking for submissions.

I've just rushed home from the 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival event  So you think you can write? This was an opportunity for ten people, picked at random from a crowd of 250, to give a three-minute pitch of their book to two prominent personalities in Australian publishing. By Cynthia Haskell.

If you want to be a great journalist these are the books you need says Richard Benson, writer and former editor of The Face.

If reality TV is over, does that mean more opportunities for writers? Jessica Mayne quizzes Hannah Sim, one of the brightest names in factual entertainment.

Authors, agents and publishers tell all at a London Book Fair master class. Aspiring novelist Phil Williams took notes.