Day: October 19, 2018

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Our 30 favourite 30-word stories

Creative challenges are a great way to unblock your imagination and just switch gears to help focus on other tasks. So that’s why we recently decided to give you a simple enough one – to use the image above as your prompt to write a story containing no more than

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

Writing Podcast Episode 254 Meet Di Morrissey, author of ‘Arcadia’

In Episode 254 of So you want to be a writer: Meet Di Morrissey, author of ‘Arcadia’. Ebury Press is looking for unagented authors and Val and Al chat to Myf Warhurst on Radio National. Shout out to Tasmin Janu, who has been shortlisted for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Plus,

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