Media

Crowdfund it! Media, Articles and Events

Anna Maguire writes and speaks about crowdfunding and digital publishing. Please contact her by email for media requests and see the ‘About Anna‘ page of this website for biography details.

Some articles, events and media follows.

2015

• Speaker at National Association for the Visual Arts as part of their NAVA Synergy program, April 2015. NAVA Synergy supports artists in gaining practical skills for forming and growing a sustainable business.
• Creative Industries Symposium, BlueLab, Blue Mountains, 20-21 May 2015.
• Article ‘Crowdfunding for the Visual Arts‘ for NAVA Art Wires eNews, May 2015.
• Quoted in Sydney Morning Herald, June 2015.

2014

• The Tasmanian Event Exchange, Hobart
• Part of a funding panel at SydStart 2014.
• Initiate Crowdfunding Summit, Sydney 2014.
• Discussing crowdfunding for writers at Book Expo Australia, 30 and 31 August.

2013

• Part of a panel at Independent Publishing Conference discussing crowdfunding and grants in the publishing industry.
• Speaking about Crowdfunding for Writers at the Sutherland Shire Writers’ Festival.
• Interviewed on Fresh 92.7 FM in Adelaide about charities and crowdfunding
• Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group: Giving and Developing Emerging Donors
• iAccelerate UOW Entrepreneur club meeting on Crowdfunding. 
• Interview and giveaway on Berlin based social reading platform Readmill – How can I successfully crowdfund my next writing project?
• SheInspires: Social Media Seminars and Tools for Small Business Owners – How to Make Social Media work for StartUps
• Running a two hour ‘Crowdfunding – know your audience and how to connect to them’ workshop at Real Film Festival in Newcastle.
• Interviewed for ‘Crowdfunding the Future‘ on The Wire Community Radio.
• Using and Understanding Crowdfunding – three-hour workshop at The Sydney Writers’ Festival. Also running three other panels associated with publishing.
• Crowdfunding for Eco Innovation: Speaking on crowdfunding at Eco Innovation Forum 2013 to an audience of environmental entrepreneurs and business directors, and there will also be a mix of commercialization advisers and investors.
• Crowdfunding for Startups: Speaking on crowdfunding at SydStart – Australia’s Largest Professional Startup Conference.
• Crowdfund it! Presenting a three-hour crowdfunding training program aimed at writers at the NSW Writers’ Centre.
• Big Data in Crowdfunding: Presented at the Big Data 2013 Conference.
• Cash Up Front: Crowdfunding for Writers article for WQ March edition, the magazine of the Queensland Writers Centre.
• Three Things You Didn’t Know About Crowdfunding: Article for Newsbite, the online newsletter of the NSW Writers’ Centre.
• Crowdfund it! An interview with Anna Maguire on the WalterBlog by Writer, Scholar, Dreamer Walter Mason.

September 2012

• Interview about crowdfunding on ABC Business Today program.

• Crowdfunding is about buying into a dream – video from the launch of Crowdfund it!