Day: September 15, 2025

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘When We Were Monsters’ by Jennifer Niven

This week, we’re giving away three copies of When We Were Monsters by Jennifer Niven. In When We Were Monsters, eight aspiring writers attend a prestigious retreat led by the enigmatic Meredith Graffam, only to discover her methods are far more dangerous than they imagined. As tensions rise and secrets

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