This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Clueless Guide to Solving a Mystery by Samera Kamaleddine & illustrated by Hykie Breeze. Stuck living temporarily at a retirement village, Claudia Smith teams up with the most popular kids at school and the most annoying kid to solve a mysterious
Nicole Kelly was working as a teacher in Ballarat, Victoria, and had just become a mum when she first enrolled in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Creative Writing Stage 1 course. She wanted to stay on track with her writing and invest in building her craft. Since then, Nicole has gone
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