Day: May 9, 2022

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Book Lovers’ by Emily Henry

This week’s giveaway Book Lovers – a new chemistry-filled ‘rivals to lovers’ rom-com set over one sizzling August from New York Times #1 bestselling author Emily Henry. We have three copies to be won. Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is

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Woman looking worried about dealing with rejection.
Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Dealing with rejection: 5 tips for writers

By Allison Tait. Rejection is part of every writer’s life. Published or unpublished, beginner or established, every writer experiences the crushing emotion that accompanies a “sorry, not for us” or a “thanks, but no thanks”. The difference between writers who go on to have successful careers and those who don’t

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