Day: October 17, 2015

Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

“I got published!”: Kristie Murray

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. Kristie said:  I’ve been a

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

“I got published!”: Lisa Schofield

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. Lisa says:  I’ve been focused

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

How to write words that sell to make people buy

Copywriting: (n) The art of writing promotional material for websites, brochures, advertisements, emailers, proposals etc. I had the good fortune to have Apple as one of my advertising clients. They asked us to come up with a series of headlines for a 24-page brochure to get rid of a bunch of

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