Overland – Jennifer Mills on #PaytheWriter …

(from ASA) ASA member Jennifer Mills published a piece in Overland literary journal calling attention to the precarious nature of freelance writing income, with stagnating rates of pay, difficulty achieving recommended rates, and the lack of baseline minimum rates. In it, Mills highlighted the MEAA’s development of a national charter setting out basic conditions for freelancers, and minimum rates. The charter will be put to a vote by MEAA members in the new year. Read more here:  https://overland.org.au/2021/11/precarious-words/

an extract: Eight years ago, I wrote a short piece for Overland called ‘Pay the Writers’. I was fed up with being asked to work for ‘exposure’. It was a time when a lot of writing work was moving online, and this work was often unpaid. Writers were at risk of losing our incomes entirely. If anything needed some exposure, it was the working conditions of freelancers.