Day: September 12, 2016

Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: What’s the GO?

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 all systems GO… Q:

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win a ‘Figgy’ book pack! (FIVE to be won)

The hot title on so many industry award shortlists in 2015 was Tamsin Janu’s debut young fiction novel, Figgy in the World. With the recent release of its sequel, Figgy and the President, we have FIVE packs of both books to give away! One of the reasons we love this

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