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Co-authoring: twice as fun or double the trouble?

What are some of the issues and complexities about writing a book with another author or even several authors?

26 Feb 2024

Thuy On

Writing and Publishing

Michelle Scott Tucker, ”Keep talking to one another, about the content and about the process.’ Photo: Suzy Hazelwood at Pexels.

Writing is such a solitary, lonely experience. You bunker down over your messy manuscript or tap away on the screen whenever you can steal moments away from life’s pressing demands, but what if you could share the load with a fellow scribe or even multiple writers? Maybe agonising over the narrative together could make the process less frustrating and more productive. ArtsHub reached out to several authors (of a young adult [YA] novel, a memoir, a non-fiction and a graphic textbook, respectively) to see what their writerly partnerships were like.

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Thuy On

Thuy On is Reviews Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the books editor of The Big issue for 8 years. Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025. Twitter: @thuy_on Instagram: poemsbythuy