Month: August 2015

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win a copy of “Snail Mail” (sent to you via snail mail!)

“Can you say everything YOU need in 140 characters?” And so poses the question in the book trailer for Snail Mail by Michelle Mackintosh – celebrating the not-quite-yet-but-definitely-on-the-endangered-list lost art of creative letter writing. In barely two decades, a whole century’s worth of letter writing prowess has been eroded by the

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers' Centre Team

How to write headlines that work

Do you write words that sell? Or are you in a business where you need to get the attention of your target audience? Perhaps you’re writing brochures or advertisements. Well, you probably also know that advertising is expensive. So how do you make small space advertising work for you? The

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Uncategorized
Australian Writers' Centre Team

3 more reasons why Scrivener makes writing a book easy

I recently blogged about how Scrivener was helping me to imagine all kinds of structural possibilities for my novel, because of the way it made setting up and manipulating the ordering of the scenes in my book so easy. In this post, I’m going to cover off three other features of

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Ep 74 We talk to Random House publisher Meredith Curnow

In Episode 74 of So you want to be a writer: The 2015 winners of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, 10 things we think we need to do before we start writing, Mark Latham being weird at the Melbourne Writers Festival, author of Chocolat, Joanne Harris, forthright about authors’ rights

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Kid reading on the floor
Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Suzanne O’Sullivan knows what the kids want…

In a recent episode of our weekly writing inspiration and information podcast, So you want to be a writer, Allison Tait spoke with Suzanne O’Sullivan – associate publisher of children’s books at Hachette Australia. With the book world exploding with children’s and young adult fiction over the past decade, Suzanne

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Uncategorized
Australian Writers' Centre Team

2015 Ned Kelly Award Annoucement

We’re thrilled for Australian Writers’ Centre presenter Candice Fox for being announced as the winner of the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best Australian Crime Fiction with her novel Eden! Her debut novel Hades won last year’s Ned Kelly for Best First Fiction. Candice presents our popular course Anatomy of

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win this trilogy pack by David M Henley!

To celebrate the release this year of Convergence by David M Henley, we have two complete sets of his “Pierre Jnr trilogy” to give away. But first, we asked David a few quick questions. Convergence is the final book in this Pierre Jnr trilogy. Can you tell us what it’s

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

“I got published!”: Jennifer Redmile

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Jennifer says:  After completing the

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: “More than” vs “Over”

Each week, we chat about the quirks & anomalies of the English language. There are, after all, more than 1000 of them. Or is that over 1000? Now we’re confused… Q: Hi AWC, I read somewhere that you’ve produced more than 24,000 graduates since you started. A: Sounds about right.

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Have a late paying client? Get your copywriting invoices paid now.

As a freelance copywriter you get to do what you love: write. And it’s easy to ignore the other part of being a freelancer: getting paid (arguably as important as the ‘writing’ component!) You’d think the hard part is over, right? You found your client, worked closely with them and produced

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

“I got published!”: Libby Hakim

We spotted Libby in the Sun Herald recently! Congratulations Libby! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

“I got published!”: Zohra Aly

We spotted Zohra in the Sun Herald recently! Congratulations Zohra! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Ep 73 Meet Jill Margo, author of ‘Pushing the Limits’

In Episode 73 of So you want to be a writer: Grab your blind date with a book, quirky micro book reviews, one traveller’s odd reading habit, an embarrassing mix up at the Kennedy Awards, the book “Write Better, Faster” by Monica Leonelle, what uber-blogger Heather from Dooce said at this year’s

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picture of magnetic alphebet
Word lovers
Australian Writers' Centre Team

11 words you can stop misspelling

The modern age has given us amazing tools like spell check, but that’s a little like having an excellent team of paramedics always waiting at the base of the cliff (surely a dubious use of medical resources?). What happens if you can’t use ‘spell check’? Wouldn’t you rather not leap

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Author Nicole Hayes shares her cafe obsession…

In a recent episode of our weekly podcast So you want to be a writer, Valerie chatted with author Nicole Hayes. Among the various questions were three we thought we’d share with you. (To listen to the interview in full, go here.) Why she chooses to write about teenagers in her books:

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win Jane Cornwell’s travel memoir, “The Whirl”

It’s competition time again, and we couldn’t give this one away without first having a chat to the woman behind all the men, music and misadventures – journalist Jane Cornwell. In this breezy travel memoir, Jane shares her flings and whirlwind experiences around the globe. These include the young Greek

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

The Vault: Michael Robotham – a matter of Life or Death…

We interview some great thriller authors on our So you want to be a writer podcast – and they graciously let us into their world (and mind!). Luckily, Michael Robotham is far more pleasant than some of the scenarios he paints on his pages. Here’s one from the vault –

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