Year: 2015

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Charles Dickens wishes AWC a happy 10th birthday

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

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Successful travel writer Sue White’s top 3 travel writing tips

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

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win our Big Birthday Box of 23 Books!

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

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Emily Bronte wishes AWC a happy 10th birthday

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

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

65-Storey Treehouse author Andy Griffiths talks bums and writing…

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,

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#AWCTurns10: 10 years ago, we were…

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

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Roald Dahl wishes AWC a happy 10th birthday

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

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win the latest Frank Lowy biography!

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

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers' Centre Team

The five biggest mistakes aspiring travel writers make

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

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Penny Harrison: Finding success in magazines and picture books

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,”

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Writer wants to ‘pay it forward’ with $4000 scholarship!

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

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A – Story vs Storey?

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

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Sydney meet-up with Candice Fox

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

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Memoir writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Memoir author Sarah Hepola on honest writing

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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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Changing careers and landing a coveted role in publishing

Courses taken at AWC:
Creative Writing Stage 1
Freelance Writing Stage 1
Grammar and Punctuation Essentials
History, Mystery and Magic

Deadlines. Celebrities. Breaking stories. And a growing audience of women who are clamouring for more digital content. That’s the world of Avi Vince, Managing Editor of iVillage Australia, which is part of the Mamamia Women’s Network. Both iVillage and its sister site Mamamia have carved a firm niche in the Australian publishing landscape, driven by magazine-turned-digital-publishing supremo, Mia Freedman.
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Grammar and Punctuation
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Quotes and punctuation – evil or not?

Each week, we chat about the quirks & anomalies of the “English” language. Like how you’re now thinking we’re being ironic because we put quote marks around English… Q: Hi AWC – I’d like to ask you about quotation marks. A: What’s your question? Q: Actually, just tell me everything

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10 great quotes to inspire your writing

In celebration of 10 years of the Australian Writers’ Centre, we thought we’d source 10 really great quotes to motivate and inspire you to succeed. There are thousands of writing-related quotes out there, but these quote don’t mention books, words, or writing but help us communicate 10 important messages. If even just

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