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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

How Alli Parker’s tweet resulted in her book deal

Alli was worried that she hadn’t written prose for over a decade, having been focused on screenplays. She decided to follow the novel writing path at the Australian Writers’ Centre, starting with Creative Writing Stage 1, then moving on to Novel Writing Essentials and capping it off with Write Your Novel.

“I wanted guidance, I wanted to learn and grow and be better so I could hone my craft and write a beautiful book to do justice to the story of my grandparents. The AWC had a range of courses, it was accessible and didn’t cost a fortune. I figured it was a good place to start.”

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Furious Fiction
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Furious Fiction: August 2023 Story Showcase

Welcome to the August Furious Fiction story showcase – a monthly ‘storytelling shop window’ of our community’s creativity and the opportunity to have YOUR OWN story featured or acknowledged. And this month, we dined out on the following criteria: Each story had to take place in a RESTAURANT. Each story

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: ‘Normal Rules Don’t Apply’ by Kate Atkinson

Award-winning writer Kate Atkinson is back with Normal Rules Don’t Apply, a collection of short stories you don’t want to miss. We have three copies to give away. Here’s the blurb: The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don’t Apply is a dazzling array of

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Jo Dabrowski gets three book deals as a children’s author

“I’m great at imagining things! I should also say that I’ve imagined winning an Oscar, but I’m yet to imagine what category it would be in,” Jo told us. “The part I struggle with is believing I’m a published author. I still feel like someone has made a mistake somewhere and I’m about to be found out.”

But it is definitely not a mistake! Since completing Writing Picture Books at the Australian Writers’ Centre, Jo has published two picture books, which she also illustrated, and her middle grade novel Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski, is out now with Affirm Press.

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

WRITER 553: Lesley Gibbes, author of ‘Dinosaur Dads to the Rescue’

Lesley Gibbes, author of Dinosaur Dads to the Rescue. How to write like you’re at Hogwarts. And much more. You can listen to the episode below, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or add the podcast RSS feed manually to your favourite podcast app.   Links mentioned in this episode Plotting and Planning

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: ‘Bad Summer People’ by Emma Rosenblum

Dreaming of summer holidays? This week’s giveaway will take you away on an island – but beware, not everyone is who you think they are. We have three copies of Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum to give away. Here’s the blurb: The families on the island have been vacationing

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

5 ways to keep your reader guessing in a crime novel

Crime writing in Australia is having a big moment, and the best crime novels are the ones that keep readers guessing right to the very end. My new novel The First Summer of Callie McGee is a middle-grade mystery novel set in a seaside village on the south coast of

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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers' Centre Team

WRITER 552: David Meagher, author of ‘Secrets and Lies’

David Meagher on his memoir Secrets and Lies. How the Pomodoro technique can help your writing. Why do American pronounce aluminium the way they do? And win After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill. You can listen to the episode below, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or add the podcast RSS

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Fiction writing
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Ned Kelly Awards shortlist nominations announced

The Ned Kelly Awards shortlist has been announced and we are so thrilled to see AWC graduate Kerryn Mayne on the list! Here are the details from the Australian Crime Writers Association website: We are proud to report that Aussie crime writing continues to grow in strength and identity, as

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers' Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: ‘After She Wrote Him’ by Sulari Gentill

Creating realistic characters is one of the fundamentals of writing. But what if the characters actually came alive? Sulari Gentill’s novel After She Wrote Him will make you question truth and fiction and we have three copies to give away. Here’s the blurb: Madeleine d’Leon doesn’t know where Edward came

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Chenée Marrapodi goes from hobby writer to published children’s author

“Writing news stories is very different to writing a children’s book!” Chenée told us. “I knew if I tried to find all of the information myself, I’d end up falling down the ‘Google rabbit hole’ and I’d waste even more time – yet another excuse to stop me from actually writing the book!”

Instead, she dove into the course Writing Children’s Novels and, as she says, hasn’t looked back. Chenée’s debut book, One Wrong Turn, is out now with Fremantle Press.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers' Centre Team

Anna Spargo-Ryan on writing beautiful sentences

Anna Spargo-Ryan is known for her beautiful way with words. Her novels The Paper House and The Gulf received critical acclaim, while her memoir A Kind Of Magic, released in October 2022, was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award in the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards.

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