Month: October 2017

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: What would YOU chop off?

This week, thanks to our friends at Madman Entertainment, we have 10 double passes up for grabs for a groundbreaking new film Loving Vincent – opening nationwide in select cinemas from 2 November 2017. This is a film with a difference – billed as the world’s first fully oil painted

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Halloween or Hallowe’en?

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 treating ourselves to some

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Siptastic Literary Tea Co pack!

This week, we’re giving away something dear to many writers’ hearts – tea. And thanks to our friends at the Literary Tea Co, we have a special pack valued at over $100 for one lucky winner! Literary Tea Co claims to be the next best thing to having a cup of

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Swan song

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 tapping our toes to

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Business writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

How to write a media release

A media release – also known as a press release –  is the primary way for you to get your message into the hands of the media. It’s a format that journalists and editors are familiar with and, even if you pitch your idea to them over the phone or

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Share YOUR perfect couples!

For this week’s giveaway we have four copies of recently published suspense thriller The Perfect Couple by Lexi Landsman to be won by someone just like YOU. This is Lexi’s second novel – her first was The Ties that Bind in 2016. Let’s hear a little about this book. Sarah

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

Ep 206 Get clients as a ghostwriter

In Episode 206 of So you want to be a writer: We share tips on how to get clients as a ghostwriter. We answer the question, “do cover blurbs work?”. Plus, strategies on how to write a young male protagonist when you are a female author. Click play below to listen

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

#whereiwrite: Rural fiction author Fiona Palmer

Today we’re chatting with Aussie author Fiona Palmer – about what’s on her desk and what’s on her mind regarding her latest book, Secrets Between Friends. She’s written eight previous bestsellers, all set on a rugged rural backdrop, but for this one, she headed to the WA coast. So hello

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Spitting or splitting image?

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 spitting and splitting images…

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

National short story competition The Hope Prize returns

The Hope Prize from the Brotherhood of St Laurence is a national short story competition that focuses on narratives of disadvantage in Australia. It’s open to Australian residents and has a total prize pool of $17,500. From the Brotherhood of St Laurence website: Australia is the proverbial ‘lucky country’, yet

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: What was the best decision you ever made?

For this week’s giveaway we have three copies of the comprehensively revised and updated edition of the international bestselling The Decision Book by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler. This stylish and compact “little black book” is like your pocket-sized go-to guide to getting things done. Whether it’s planning a presentation,

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Uncategorized
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Story-Fest 2017 brings poetry slam competition to Sydney

Story-Fest is happening in Sydney from 13-15 October 2017. It’s a three day-event culminating in the Australian Poetry Slam – National Final, which takes place at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 15 October 2017. Story-Fest is organised by Word Travels, a not-for-profit arts association started by Miles Merrill who

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Freelance and copywriting
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Meet David Leser, Australia’s finest profile writer

Since he started teaching with us at the Australian Writers’ Centre in 2015, David Leser has captivated groups with his excellent Profile Writing course. He is Australia’s finest profile writer and an award-winning feature writer, having worked for publications such as The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, HQ, The Bulletin, Good Weekend,

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Uncategorized
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Steve Bisley book launch invitation

To celebrate the publication of All the Burning Bridges, the sequel to Stillways, Steve Bisley’s acclaimed first memoir, Bonnier and Better Read Than Dead are launching the book at Leadbelly, 42 King St, Newtown NSW on Tuesday 12 October 2017, 6:00pm. Steve Bisley will be in conversation with Doctor, Doctor

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Incumbent

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 felt it was incumbent

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