Day: April 28, 2015

Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

The last thing writer Allison Tait does each day…

Author and journalist Allison Tait talks about her passions for feature writing and fiction writing. Her novel The Mapmaker Chronicles: Race to the End of the World is making waves in the world of middle grade fiction. Our top-rating podcast So you want to be a writer features a regular

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