Month: April 2015

Fiction writing
Valerie Khoo

How to ask your questions directly to a publisher (and get an answer!)

Ever wanted to ask questions directly to a publisher? Hachette Australia’s “Ask the publisher” initiative will give you the chance to do just that. It will take place each Friday between 3pm-4pm (Sydney time) on Twitter. Just tweet @HachetteAus and include the hashtag #askHAU. Then one of Hachette’s publishers will chat

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Bernadette Schwerdt on copywriting

So you want to be a copywriter? You’ve heard that this is one of the most lucrative options you can have as a writer. But what does it really entail – and do you have what it takes to be successful? Our weekly top-rating podcast So you want to be

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

Ep 56 Meet Annabel Smith, author of ‘Whiskey Charlie Foxtrot’

In Episode 56 of So you want to be a writer: The Sydney Writers’ Festival kicks off, are “clean words” offensive, the key to keeping clients happy, the one skill you need to write well, how to create a fantastic social media plan, the book Spell It Out by David Crystal,

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Word lovers
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Me, Myself and I

Each week, our Australian Writers’ Centre Q&A chats about the quirks and anomalies of the English language. This week, when you should use ‘myself’ and when you shouldn’t… Q: Happy Easter! I myself am very excited about it. A: We can see that. You’ve even dressed up as the Easter

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

“My first time": Nick Earls

Every successful author has a first novel – the one that started it all and paved the way for what followed. Fortunes may shift up and down, but you are a first-time novelist just once. And like many other ‘first times’, there’s often a story to be told. Here’s Nick

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Explaining i.e. and e.g.

Each week, our Australian Writers’ Centre Q&A chats about the quirks and anomalies of the English language. This week, we’re making an example of ourselves with some common acronyms and how to use them correctly… Q: Hi AWC, I’d like to ask you about i.e. and e.g. Can you tell

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Fiction writing
Guest Writer

Creating secondary worlds

One of the great pleasures of writing a fantasy novel is creating the secondary world in which your story will inhabit. In the contemporary fiction genre, the writer knows the religious, political, historical, and cultural background of the society already A fantasy writer must construct the society from the very

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Uncategorized
Dean Koorey

Putting out your bats or putting your bats out?

It’s been a long summer of cricket, and with the Cricket World Cup happening in this part of the world, we are reminded of the quite sensational outpouring of grief back at the beginning of the season, with the passing of young cricketer, Phillip Hughes. Hashtag fever His fatal on-pitch

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