Month: September 2018

Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Real Estate terms explained

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 are mulling over Real

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Furious Fiction September 2018 winner and shortlist

It’s time to announce the winning story and shortlist for September’s Furious Fiction! Over 700 entries came in to land this month, each one needing to address the creative criteria: The entire story must take place in an airport. The story must include the word SPRING somewhere. (Plural also okay.)

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED Win new book ‘Amazing Australian Women’

This week, thanks to Hachette, we’re giving away three copies of new book Amazing Australian Women by Pamela Freeman and illustrated by Sophie Beer. This isn’t some weighty wordy textbook – not at all! It’s a bright and colourful look at 12 incredible Australian women who helped shape our country,

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

Ep 250 Meet Robert Wainwright, author of ‘Rocky Road: The Incredible True Story of the Fractured Family Behind the Darrell Lea Chocolate Empire’

In Episode 250 of So you want to be a writer: Meet Robert Wainwright, author of Rocky Road: The Incredible True Story of the Fractured Family Behind the Darrell Lea Chocolate Empire. Discover the difference between content writing and copywriting and how a romance author is accused of killing her husband. Plus,

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone?

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 have our eye on

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Our amazing Pamela’s ‘Amazing Australian Women’

Pamela Freeman, Director of Creative Writing Faculty at AWC has been busy and published another book this year, a children’s book, Amazing Australian Women (Hachette Australia). This bright and colourful book looks at 12 incredible Australian women who have helped shape our country, from politics and the arts, to Indigenous

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win new memoir “A Letter from Paris”

This week we’re giving away three copies of a new book A Letter from Paris by Louisa Deasey. Louisa is a Melbourne-based writer who has been published widely in publications such as Overland, Vogue, The Australian, and The Saturday Age. Her first memoir, Love and Other U-Turns, was nominated for

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Why do we eat humble pie?

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 are spilling the beans

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

Ep 249 Meet Dianne Blacklock, author of ‘Jack and Kate’

In Episode 249 of So you want to be a writer: Discover short story comps for children’s writers and learn about scholarships to a Writers Retreat in Iceland. Plus, you’ll meet Dianne Blacklock, author of Jack and Kate. Click play below to listen to the podcast. You can also listen on Apple

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win this family movie pass

This week we have 5 family passes to new movie The House with a Clock in its Walls – in cinemas 20 September 2018 and starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. Based on the book with the same quirky title, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a film

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Our famous Q&As!
Dean Koorey

Q&A: Phase vs faze

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 are unfazed about this

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

Ep 248 Meet Penelope Janu, author of ‘On The Right Track’

In Episode 248 of So you want to be a writer: Meet Penelope Janu, author of On The Right Track. Discover how to not irritate your local bookshop: a guide for authors and learn 1 simple tip to help you get more writing done. You’ll hear about how Graham Frizzell carves out

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: Win our ‘Crazy Rich’ giveaway!

With the new movie Crazy Rich Asians making such a huge splash around the world, we thought we’d give away copies of the book that started it all – Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel of the same name! Originally published in 2013, Crazy Rich Asians was Kwan’s outrageously funny debut novel.

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Win $5000 in the 2018 ELLE magazine short story competition

The ELLE writing competition is back!   This is your chance to write a short story, get published AND win $5000. From the ELLE Website: “For this year’s ELLE Writing Competition, in association with Hachette Australia, we’re looking for modern, contemporary voices telling stories that are engaging and subversive. We

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