Day: November 6, 2014

Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Fewer or less?

Each week, we take a look at a common confusions and ambiguities in the English language (that gives us about a century’s worth of material!) – making things easier through the power of friendly conversation. This week, useless chatter about whether to use “less”… Q: Hi there. I was at the

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

A chat with illustrator, writer and presenter Judith Rossell

Judith Rossell is an uber-talented writer and illustrator of children’s books, as well as being a presenter for our Writing Picture Books course in Melbourne. Her latest book, Withering-by-Sea, is launching this month so we asked her to paint us a picture of what it’s all about. Once she’d finished

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

2014 Barbara Jefferis Award Winners

The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered biennially for the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society. Without further ado, here’s the press release in all it’s glory: It is with

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