Day: June 5, 2017

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win beautiful and clever Book Maps!

We have something a little different this week for our giveaway which we just know you’re going to love. It’s from the clever UK-based design studio Dorothy and it’s a street map made up from the titles of over 600 books from the history of English literature (and a few

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

Writing Podcast Episode 177 How to self-publish?

In this minisode of So you want to be a writer: how to self-publish, author branding when you write for multiple genres, are you writing “new adult” fiction? Got a question for Val and Al? Ask at podcast [at] writerscentre [dot] com [dot] au Click play below to listen to the podcast.

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