Day: September 7, 2015

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win the thrilling “Rescue Pilot: Cheating the Sea”

Continuing our non-fiction dalliance of late, this week’s giveaway book reads far more like fiction. It’s from Jerry Grayson and documents his time as a search and rescue helicopter pilot with the British Royal Navy. Don’t believe it sounds like fiction? Listen to this extract: “The whole world had gone mad.

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Nikki Pellegrino’s writing doubts and advice

Nicky Pellegrino was born in Liverpool but spent her childhood summers staying with family in southern Italy. So when Nicky started writing fiction, her memories of those summers came flooding back and flavoured her stories: the passions, the feuds but most of all the food. Nicky now lives in Auckland,

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