Having trouble harnessing your hashtags, keeping your pins sharp or posting things that people will read? Social media seems to be both a blessing and curse for writers – offering a chance to tell more of your story, and yet piling on a bunch of bells, whistles and EXTRA TIME
This week’s Australian Writers’ Centre competition prize is the latest biography about the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs. Since his death in 2011 (and even before), there have been a number of books attempting to unlock the man behind the machines – and this one promises many new insights. As
You’ve probably heard about ‘Writing in Prison’ programs, where prison inmates are assisted with their writing. However, if you’re in Victoria, you too can write in prison – without the hassle of having to commit a crime first! The National Trust ‘Cells for Writers’ project has been designed to assist
We spotted Lakshmi in The Sunday Morning Herald recently! Congratulations Lakshmi! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Unpublished writers, want to win $10,000 and a 12 month mentorship with Hachette? Read on… From the Emerging Writers’ Festival website: About The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers Hachette Australia, along with the Richell family, have established The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in partnership with The Guardian Australia and The
Victorian writers, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and Awards is back and this time with a prize pool valued at over $100,000! From the media release: Entries have opened in one of Australia’s most prestigious literature prizes, the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015 and Awards, which, valued at more than
Each week, we chat about the quirks and anomalies of the English language. And this week, we have a lot to say… Q: Hi AWC, could we maybe allot a few minutes this week to a pet peeve of mine? A: Sure. We have a lot of time to spare
A fantastic opportunity is coming up, with the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Room (SWR) Short Story Competition opening for entries on 1 June. According to SWR, stories should be limited to 2500 words and must be single-authored and unpublished. Entries are accepted online only, either as Word Documents or PDF files.
In Episode 63 of So you want to be a writer: Australian writers on #WhereIWrite, the ethics of branded content marketing, famous authors who were rejected by publishers, the superpower all published writers have (and you can have too!), Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner on art, a street map made up of
We spotted both Michaela and Catherine in Sunday Life recently! Congratulations Michaela and Catherine! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Deborah O’Brien is a teacher, visual artist and author of non-fiction books, articles and short stories. Her debut novel was the 2012 bestselling Mr Chen’s Emporium and her fourth novel, The Trivia Man, will be released in June 2015. In episode 16 of our top-rating So You Want to be
With the news this week of Tamsin Janu’s first book Figgy and the World winning the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards’ 2015 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature we wanted to revisit our fab interview with her last year. What an amazing result – congratulations Tamsin! Australian Writers’ Centre graduate Tamsin
O’ Caption! My Caption! It’s competition time again, and this week we’ll be asking for your best captioning efforts. But first, a little about the prize that’s on offer. There are in fact FOUR copies of Lindsey Kelk’s latest novel Always the Bridesmaid to be won. Lindsey grew up in
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. Vivienne says: I finished Magazine
One of the wonderful things about the Australian Writers’ Centre (just one of them) is the flexibility with which you can do your learning. We run classroom courses in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, as well as a range of tutored online courses for anyone with an internet connection. And new
To celebrate her recent book launch, author and Australian Writers’ Centre presenter Patti Miller will be in Melbourne for a Q&A and more. From the Alliance Française website: Book presentation, Q&A and book signing with the author: Patti Miller Wednesday 24th June 2015, 6.30pm Alliance Française, 51 Grey Street, ST
In Episode 62 of So you want to be a writer: Sydney Writers’ Festival wrap up, the most borrowed books from Australian libraries, how much (or little) publications pay freelance writers, the rise and demise of the paragraph, crime short stories inspired by Bruce Springsteen songs, the book ‘How I Became
Each week, we chat about the quirks & anomalies of the English language. This week, we explore want to know which words have a capital letter and which do not… Q: Hi AWC, I just got back from Australia’s capital. A: The letter A? Q: Haha, no, Canberra. And when
This week, we have 10 double passes to give away to the new French film, Gemma Bovery, based on the book of the same name by Posy Simmonds. Directed by Anne Fontaine and starring Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, it tells the story of a Martin, who has escaped the
Writers usually need a little organisation to balance their days. And the one place they spend the most amount of time is their keyboards. So it was only a matter of time before someone combined the two. There is nothing remotely complex about this gift idea from Poketo. It’s effectively
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