With the Sydney Writers Festival as the launch pad, UTS is celebrating the latest edition of its influential Writers' Anthology, which now has access to a wider audience thanks to a new joint venture with ABC Books.

Making Tracks is the latest selection of creative works by authors from the prestigious writing courses in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, bringing together emerging new writing talents in short fiction, poetry and experimental narrative.

Each year, a team of UTS students forms an editorial committee that selects and edits around thirty pieces of writing. Dr Cathy Cole of the Writing and Cultural Studies area has coordinated the past two anthologies.

Editorial committee member Holly Hutchinson said Making Tracks is the first to witness a changeover from Halstead Press to ABC Books.

"It's a significant change for all involved in the process, as a wider distribution with the ABC means greater exposure for the new and emerging writers," she said.

"The title Making Tracks was chosen because in each story, poem and screenplay, there is a sense of journey already begun, an action set in motion that has taken the participant beyond the point of return, of turning back. Each track is a story in itself.

"Ultimately, all the effort put into creating the anthology creates a collection of work that gives UTS writers an important chance to be published, to have a space of their own, and have their work exposed to countless potential future publishers.

"Just as the editorial committee became like a family, that family also encompasses the writers, as we feel like proud, gushing parents, feeling a sense of pride in knowing that we were the first to glance a new talent, a new voice about to make an impact," Ms Hutchinson said.

Making Tracks had its Sydney Writers Festival Launch to a full house on Saturday 27 May and was being presented again, with selected readings by the authors, at Gleebooks in Glebe Point Road from 6pm on Thursday 1 June.

Throughout the winter season, the writing talents from Making Tracks will participate in a series of book events around metropolitan Sydney, including readings at Shearer's bookshop in Norton St Leichhardt on Wednesday 7 June and at the Stanton Library in North Sydney on Wednesday 12 July.