Month: June 2017

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

Ep 183 Meet Andrew Marmont, author of ‘Their Finest Hour’

In this minisode of So you want to be a writer: meet Andrew Marmont, author of Their Finest Hour and find out about how he turned his sporting passion into a book. Got a question for Val and Al? Ask at podcast [at] writerscentre [dot] com [dot] au Click play below

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Word lovers
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Lubricious

Lubricious (adjective) [loo-brish-uh s] According to the book 500 Words Your Should Know: “Another word for lewd, lascivious or indeed libidinous, though this is more formal than any of them. It’s from the same Latin root as lubricate and lubricant, with their implications of slipperiness and reducing friction. Enough said, don’t you think?”

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Mould vs mold

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 we’re breaking the mouldy mold… Q:

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

Ep 182 Meet Hardie Grant Egmont publisher Marisa Pintado

In Episode 182 of So you want to be a writer: Learn how to use a plotting chart in your redrafting process and why this teenager won’t read Young Adult novels. Discover how the ‘Creative Gap’ frustrates writers. Your chance to enter a short story competition and Harry Potter books up

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Charlotte Nash invites you to “The Paris Wedding”

Today we’re speaking with Brisbane-based bestselling Australian author Charlotte Nash about her new book, The Paris Wedding – hitting bookstores July 2017. Charlotte has up until now written “rural lit” – tales of life and love in remote Australia. So, naturally the idea of Paris seems about as far from

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win 2x Harry Potter book packs!

Monday 26 June 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. So, we feel it’s only right to share the Potter love this week. You’ve probably read (and re-read) the original seven books published between 1997 and 2007,

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Word lovers
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Pulchritude

Pulchritude (noun) [pul-chri-tude] It seems like such an ugly looking word but it means the opposite. The Macquarie Dictionary defines it as “beauty” or “comeliness”. So you might say: “The actress Robin Wright is a woman of great pulchritude.” Listen to Valerie and Allison chat more about this and more on the world of

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Picture this: An interview with illustrator Giuseppe Poli

Giuseppe Poli is a leading illustrator in his field. His latest children’s book Baby Band (words by Diane Jackson Hill) was released this year. Giuseppe lives in Queensland and we had a chat with him about his insights into the world of illustrating… Hi Giuseppe. Hey, before we start –

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Short story challenge: June 2017

Wednesday 21 June 2017 marked the shortest day of the year here in the Southern Hemisphere – the winter solstice. We’re currently having four and half fewer hours of daylight than we’ll get on 22 December (the longest day). Four and a half hours! But it’s okay, because winter is

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

Ep 180 Meet Ben Hobson, author of ‘To Become a Whale’

In Episode 180 of So you want to be a writer: How to choose and set up a pen name. Should you talk about your book before it’s published? Discover how you could win a copy of ‘Only: A Singular Memoir’ by Caroline Baum and find out how AWC alumna Cat Rodie writes

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win Caroline Baum’s “Only: A Singular Memoir”

This week’s giveaway is Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum. Caroline is an incredibly experienced journalist and was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine. She has interviewed many of the world’s top authors and now it’s her turn. Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story revealing what

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

Ep 179 Do publishers like rhyming picture books?

In this minisode of So you want to be a writer: do publishers like rhyming picture books? How to break into the industry and techniques to edit and revise without going through hell. Got a question for Val and Al? Ask at podcast [at] writerscentre [dot] com [dot] au Click play

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Word lovers
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Anomia

Anomia (noun) [uh-noh-mee-uh] This is the loss of the ability to name objects or recall names. So you might say “As he got older he began experiencing anomia.” We occasionally experience it in day-to-day situations too – when a word or name is “on the tip of our tongue” but we

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Phenomenon vs phenomena

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 something like a phenomenon… Q:

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Word lovers
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Sophistry

Sophistry (noun) [soff-uh-stree] This generally means “a false argument or reasoning”. So you might say: “John tried to use sophistry to hide his illegal actions from the tax agency.” (From wordsinasentence.com) Listen to Valerie and Allison chat more about this and more on the world of writing, blogging and publishing.  

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