Day: August 15, 2022

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED ‘Flipper and Finnegan’ by Sophie Cunningham

This week’s giveaway book is “an affirming and delightful tale based on a true story of animal rescue and community cooperation”. It has a very long title – Flipper and Finnegan – The True Story of How Tiny Jumpers Saved Little Penguins and it’s by Sophie Cunningham, with illustrations by

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A woman’s hands holding an open book with the words “BEST SELLER” in large red font.
Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

What does it take to create a bestselling novel?

By Allison Tait. Every author, whether aspiring or emerging or established, dreams of writing a bestseller. A book that will rocket up the sales charts, whether propelled by word of mouth or prize-winning status, dragging its writer behind it into a dream life of champagne and literary lunches. Whether the

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