Sarah Speedie was a full-time stay-at-home mum and, when her children reached an age where she could carve out time for herself she chose to embark on a new journey – one that would reignite her passion for learning and storytelling. Sarah enrolled in the Writing Picture Books course at the Australian Writers’ Centre.
When Sydney writer Katie Hoskins took Creative Writing Stage 1 with the Australian Writers’ Centre, she discovered the confidence and structure she needed to write her debut novel. Her commercial fiction When the Party’s Over will be published by Pan Macmillan in March 2026.
For former zookeeper Tina Strachan, writing had long been a passion, but she never imagined she would ever see her own work published ‘in the wild’. It would take a writing competition to reignite the spark and set her on track to telling stories that drew heavily from her own
AWC alumna Sarah Bailey’s star continues to rise in the world of publishing. Sarah burst onto the literary scene with her novel The Dark Lake. The thriller was a bestseller around the world and Sarah’s suspenseful police procedural set in country Victoria earned her comparisons with authors such as Gillian
Leearna Shaw had written three manuscripts. She’d been writing, editing and querying in the gaps between work and raising a family, but despite getting tantalisingly close, the rejections kept coming. Determined to find the missing piece, she enrolled in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Romance Writing course – and it changed
With 20 books now to her name and a slew of accolades and bestseller titles under her belt, crime author Candice Fox has gone with something a little different for her latest novel, Redbelly Crossing. Inspired by a real-life family reminiscence, she has reimagined elements of two actual Sydney cold-case
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