Day: March 4, 2025

Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Millie Lewis builds on her picture book success

“Writing Picture Books showed me that I could learn to master something I knew very little about (and trust me, there are transferable lessons there when it comes to parenthood!) For the first time since having a baby, I felt competent at something, and that was truly transformative for me,” Millie says. “Of course, getting a picture book contract the same year was icing on the cake!”

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