Month: February 2016

Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Michaela Fox: Blogger turned successful freelance writer

As a blogger, Michaela Fox was already loving being able to write while at home, but it was almost too comfortable. The idea of working as a freelance writer and earning a living really appealed.

“Being able to freelance from home is just the ideal situation for me,” she says. “I get to still be at home with my kids, which is really important for me. I want to be involved in their lives – they’re only young.”

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Bernadette Schwerdt’s Book Launch Breakfast

When it comes to publishing a book, every celebrated author knows they have to master the art of online marketing. 50 Shades of Grey started as an ebook and found a massive online audience, before it became a paperback. Online publishing sensation Amanda Hocking, also emerged from obscurity to best-selling

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Are you a playwright? Enter this competition

Are you an aspiring playwright looking for an opportunity to showcase your original work? Submit your script in this year’s Ensemble Stages Play Reading and break a leg! From Ensemble Theatre’s website Would you like to test your new play out in front of an audience? Submit your work to

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Alison Goodman talks Regency mash-up fiction

We’re here today with Alison Goodman – New York Bestselling author of the fantasy duology EON and EONA. Her latest novel is The Dark Days Club – book one of a new trilogy, which has been described as “a delicious collision of Regency romance and dark fantasy”. So Alison, how

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

“My First Time”: Jackie French

Every successful author had a first novel – the one that started it all and paved the way for what followed. Fortunes may shift up and down, but you are a first-time novelist just once. And like many other “first times”, there’s often a story to be told. Jackie French

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Our 2016 Reading Challenge

At the beginning of every year, prolific readers wanting to expand their horizons look to “reading challenges” to help them with such a task. Just like the one in the image above (you can find that full list here), the challenges are designed to get you to read a wide

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Ep 97 Meet thriller writer Adrian McKinty, author of ‘Rain Dogs’

In Episode 97 of So you want to be a writer: Book 2 of Allison Tait’s The Mapmaker Chronicles is shortlisted for the Aurealis Award, punctuation in famous novels, a poem that shows how tricky English can be, and would you write differently if you were anonymous? Also: common mistakes for the

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win Frederick Forsyth’s “The Outsider”!

If you haven’t heard of author Frederick Forsyth, we’re going to assume that you’ve been living under a rock. His modern thriller novels have sold millions of copies around the world – including classics such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Fourth Protocol. He has

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Ep 96 Meet Hazel Edwards, author of ‘Hijabi Girl’

In Episode 96 of So you want to be a writer: What was left out of Seven Little Australians, the life of a Hallmark card writer, fewer vs less, and how to write a fab press release. Also check out the the book Wordburger: How to be a champion puzzler in 20

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

What was left out of Seven Little Australians

This post is written by Matthew Curlewis, a descendant of Ethel Turner, who wrote Seven Little Australians. Matthew originally wrote this shortly before Australia Day 2016 and has given us permission to republish it. An attempt on behalf of my ancestor Ethel Turner, to correct some Koori history censored out

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win “Monty and Me” by Louisa Bennet

This week’s giveaway is a great one for younger readers – introducing us to the world’s newest animal sleuth – dog detective Monty. It’s called Monty and Me by Australian author Louisa Bennet, and here’s what the publicity says about it: “You might think that dogs can’t understand us…but you’d

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Build your profile and promote your book
Australian Writers' Centre Team

5 Aussie Authors share their views on the ‘author platform’

This is a post by Allison Tait, who is a presenter at the Australian Writers’ Centre and author of the successful series The Mapmaker Chronicles. One of the things I love most about So you want to be a writer, my podcast with Valerie Khoo, is the opportunity to speak

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Build your profile and promote your book
Australian Writers' Centre Team

5 tips on how to promote a book

This is a post by Allison Tait, who is a presenter at the Australian Writers’ Centre and author of the successful series The Mapmaker Chronicles. Today we are again delving into the now-deep archives of the So you want to be a writer podcast for some gems of wisdom on

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Discreet or Discrete? Discretion advised…

Each week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness. It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness. This week, it’s we’re making discreet enquiries

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Word lovers
Australian Writers' Centre Team

57 inspirational quotes to kick off 2016!

Here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we love inspirational and motivational quotes – if you don’t believe us, check out our Instagram feed!  Once the domain of framed glass pictures on corporate office walls, such quotes are now more accessible than ever – thanks mainly to the rise of the

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Explore love with this competition

Ah February. Some people count down the days to February 14th with amorous impatience, some hate it with a fiery passion, while others adjust their hipster glasses and scoff, “Hallmark day”. Whatever your views on February 14th, if you’ve got a manuscript exploring love in any of its forms (romantic, parental, platonic

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