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
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
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
If you follow us on social media or are a keen reader of our weekly newsletters, this crossword is going to be a breeze for you. Give it a go and see how you fare! Here’s the PDF version so you can print it out Across 4. Grant Doyle teaches
When you get a special message from a dead author, you pay attention. Especially when the author is Charles Dickens! He sent this message to us from beyond the grave because he wanted to wish us happy 10th birthday! Thanks Chuck. “It was the best of 10 years, it was the
New to the world of travel writing? While it’s true that experienced travel writers get flown around the globe on someone else’s buck, you need to first gain a foothold in this competitive field. Sue White is a prolific features and travel writer. When she is not globe-trotting, she is
In Episode 81 of So you want to be a writer: Australian women authors are making tech work for them, win a $4000 writing scholarship, changing careers to become a writer, Girlfriend and Total Girl magazines are merging, apply your feature writing skills to fiction. Writer in Residence picture book author Danny
To celebrate turning 10, we wanted to reward ONE lucky member of our community with the ultimate prize – a box containing not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six… okay, we’ll stop that – it’s a grand total of 23 books! All written by the
We’ve received many messages from people around Australia and the world to congratulate us on our excellent milestone here at the Australian Writers’ Centre. (We turned 10!) But a couple of them were quite unexpected, such as this one from famous 19th-century authoring sister, Emily Bronte… “Congratulations Australian Writers Centre
Andy Griffiths is one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors, best known for the Treehouse series, the JUST! books, and the delightfully titled The Day My Bum Went Psycho. The 65-Storey Treehouse hit shelves in August 2015, to the great excitement of children everywhere. And amid this furious launching frenzy,
2015 marks the Australian Writers’ Centre’s 10th birthday, and it got us thinking… what were we all doing 10 years go? We turned back the clock to share these stories with you. Finish this sentence: 10 years ago, I was… …helping Valerie prep for the first class at the, back
The much-loved children’s author Roald Dahl sent us this birthday message from the Giant Peach of the Afterlife. He wanted to wish the Australian Writers’ Centre happy 10th birthday! Here’s what he said. “You have taught us that publishers are merely Big Friendly Gatekeepers and that we can all create marvellous medicines to
We’re loving reading about other people’s lives this week, so we’ve grabbed the recently released Frank Lowy: A Second Life by Jill Margo. From here, let’s quote our director Valerie Khoo and her own experience with the book (reprinted from her website): “I have no interest in Frank Lowy, soccer or
Relax! Everyone makes mistakes, especially when entering a new field. But wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t need to make those mistakes quite so publicly? By following the advice of our travel writing presenter, Sue White, you just may be able to avoid the most common mistakes of many
When journalist Penny Harrison made the switch to writing feature stories, little did she know it would lead to the publication of her first picture book. “I had been working as a local newspaper journalist for 10 years and was just thinking about returning to work after my first baby,”
In Episode 80 of So you want to be a writer: One Direction releases a children’s book (say what?), how to use author events to grow your fan base and sell more books, why dads reading to kids is important, things to think about when co-authoring a book, it’s time to start
Each week, we chat about the quirks & anomalies of the English language. In fact, if English were a building, it would have many storeys and many stories to tell… Q: Well hello there AWC. A: How’s your week been? Q: I’ve been helping a friend move house. The elevator
Are you an unpublished writer just starting out and wanting some capital to help build your profile? Well, writer Matthew Loomis wants to give you it, as part of his New Writer Scholarship. “Matthew who?” you say. No, you probably haven’t heard of him – he is simply a blogger
BOOK NOW Who is speaking at this event: Candice Fox is the bestselling crime and thriller writer behind the novel Hades, which won the prestigious Ned Kelly Award in 2014. Its sequel, Eden, was published in January 2015 and won the Ned Kelly Award in 2015. Book three in the
Sarah Hepola is the personal essays editor at Salon.com, where she reads other people’s stories for a living. But now she has published her own memoir – the raw, powerful and honest Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget, confronting and sharing with readers her struggle with alcohol over
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