When we hear that our students have been published, it absolutely makes our day. And it seems like we’ve had plenty of reasons to smile lately. So many of our graduates are achieving great things in the world of freelance writing. We like to celebrate by popping champagne, dancing on a table
We are thrilled for Australian Writers’ Centre graduate Miranda Luby for being shortlisted in the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year the competition attracted nearly 4000 entries from 47 countries. Miranda’s story, This Here Land, was one of 26 shortlisted and is now in the running for the major prize. Such
So Nicole Hayes is going gangbusters right now – with her YA fiction novels being so well received right across Australia and beyond. But her latest book, From the Outer: Footy like you’ve never heard it, is a collection of stories written by a range of different people about the
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