WriteHive Mentorship Program

Ejay Dawson is a bisexual, autistic/ADHD author whose work spans paranormal thrillers, fantasy, and scifi. They’ve published Behind the Veil, a paranormal thriller, and their NA fantasy, Echo of the Evercry, with Literary Wanderlust. They also have self-published a scifi trilogy Queen of Spades, and steampunk Series The Last Prophecy. Ejay is a mentor since inception with Write Hive, a Futurescapes alum, and a participant in the Australia Writers Centre’s Write a Novel program with Cathie Tasker. They hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Deakin University.

In addition to writing, Ejay has contributed to the literary community as a judge for the SPSFC, a volunteer with Flights of Fancy, and a member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of Australia. Their short fiction has been published by Grendel Press and Savage Planets.

Ejay lives in rural New South Wales, Australia, with their supportive spouse and two rescue pups.

If you are looking at the program its because you know your story isn’t ready, and that is OK. That’s not a bad thing to know, it helps you understand your story craft and identify how to be a better writer. I work with a lot of neurodivergent writers and we’re after the “click” moment of a story to work out why it isn’t working, and how we fix it.

Sometimes that can mean digging deep to the heart of a story to make sure what’s on the page is a true reflection of your vision. We’ll go over the story, and meet to talk about it, develop a plan to tackle the relevant issues, and in the end I give you in script comments, along with a deep edit letter, and then we usually have another catch up to talk it through.

If you want to do that kind of work, I want to help you and your novel, and teach you tools for the next novel and all the stories to come.