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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Furious Fiction: April 2025 Story Showcase

Welcome to the April creative showcase – the monthly featherbed of fiction where we wake up and smell the sweet aroma of freshly brewed stories. So, are you ready to put this month’s challenge to bed? Here were the prompts: Each story’s setting had to be a BED.  Each story’s

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

WIN ‘Elphie: A Wicked Childhood’ by Gregory Maguire

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire. Before she was the Wicked Witch, she was Elphie – a green-skinned girl searching for her place in the world. Elphie: A Wicked Childhood follows young Elphaba as she navigates family struggles, early friendships, and

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Jo Skinner: balancing writing and medicine

Plenty of authors have day jobs – in fact it’s more common than not, such is the nature of the business. For Dr. Jo Skinner, she is adamant not to let her medical career stifle her writing. In fact, it has actually become a source of inspiration. “I always say

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Gatsby Gambit’ by Claire Anderson-Wheeler

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler. At Gatsby’s West Egg mansion, a glittering summer is shattered by a shocking murder. Greta Gatsby, Jay’s determined younger sister, finds herself entangled in a world of secrets, betrayal, and scandal as she searches for the

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Jam Maker’ by Mary-Lou Stephens

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Jam Maker by Mary-Lou Stephens. Harriet Brown disguises herself as a boy to work in a jam factory. When her secret is exposed, she risks everything to reinvent herself, caught in a web of deception that could cost her everything. Inspired

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

How Susannah Hardy’s new year’s resolution turned into a new career

One new year’s day, Susannah Hardy made a decision that would change the rest of her life. She decided she wanted to earn money from writing. Already working as an actor, Susannah then enrolled in a course at the Australian Writers’ Centre. That set her on a path where she now has dual careers – as an actor, as well as a successful freelance writer, published in Australia’s top magazines and newspapers.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Sophie Gillies: How wombat poo led to picture book success

When Sophie Gillies was about eight years old, she was an avid reader, and often imagined telling Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls about life in the late 20th century. Fast forward to well into the 21st century and Sophie studied creative writing at university before finding herself

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘London Uncanny’ by Clive Bloom

This week, we’re giving away three copies of London Uncanny by Clive Bloom. London Uncanny is a journey through the eerie and macabre side of London, blending history, literature, and the supernatural. Clive Bloom explores the city’s dark past, from crime and vice to ghosts and the occult, weaving together

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Our famous Q&As!
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Q&A: Why do watches call them ‘complications’ and ‘hands’?

Each week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness. It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness. This week, watch yourself… Q: Hi AWC,

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Furious Fiction
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Furious Fiction: March 2025 Story Showcase

Welcome to the March creative showcase – we hope you brought a towel AND are ready to ride the ups and downs of this month’s selections! What are we talking about? Well, allow us to remind you of the prompts: Each story had to take place in EITHER of the

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED WIN ‘Twist’ by Colum McCann

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Twist by Colum McCann. Twist follows journalist Anthony Fennell as he uncovers the story behind the global fibre-optic network. He joins a crew led by Captain John Conway, whose personal crisis and disappearance spark a high-stakes mystery at sea. A taut thriller

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Camille Booker’s joyful journey to published author

Camille Booker had never allowed herself to imagine being a ‘real’ author one day – but faced with new motherhood and a demanding teaching job, she started to dream of the possibility. “I’d always loved reading, language, words, poetry,” she says. “Writing was my creative outlet: a way to avoid

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