Category: Competitions and Opportunities

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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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘A Forbidden Alchemy’ by Stacey McEwan

This week, we’re giving away three copies of A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan. In A Forbidden Alchemy, childhood friends Nina and Patrick grow up on opposite sides of a divided magical society, their paths split by ambition, loyalty, and a dangerous secret about the source of magic. Years later,

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Bourne Escape’ by Brian Freeman

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Bourne Escape by Brian Freeman. The Bourne Escape is a gripping new chapter in the Jason Bourne saga. After a deadly attack leaves him adrift and alone, Bourne must uncover the truth behind his lover’s murder and his fragmented memories. As

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Lights, Camera, Love’ by Natalie Murray

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Lights, Camera, Love by Natalie Murray. Lights, Camera, Love is a flirty, feel-good romance where a spirited dance teacher clashes – and sparks fly – with a grumpy Hollywood manager. Set against a chaotic movie shoot, it’s a story about trust, healing,

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Arcana Academy’ by Elise Kova

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Arcana Academy by Elise Kova. Arcana Academy follows Clara, a magic-forging thief who avoids prison by posing as a student—and fake fiancée—to a powerful headmaster. As she’s drawn into a high-stakes heist and dangerous romance, Clara must choose between seizing power or

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘A Passion for Passion’ by Alice Fraser

This week, we’re giving away three copies of A Passion for Passion by Alice Fraser. A Passion for Passion is a hilarious, loving send-up of romance novels through the fictional lens of D’Ancey LaGuarde, a flamboyant and prolific romance author invented by Fraser. Brimming with fake excerpts, absurd covers, and

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Midnight Estate’ by Kelly Rimmer

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Midnight Estate by Kelly Rimmer. The Midnight Estate by Kelly Rimmer is a gothic mystery about family secrets, lost love, and a book that blurs the line between fiction and reality. Set in a decaying estate, it’s a haunting tale of

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Audition’ by Katie Kitamura

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Audition by Katie Kitamura. In Audition, a lunch between an actress and a mysterious younger man becomes a quiet unraveling of identity and intimacy. Through shifting perspectives, Katie Kitamura explores how performance, memory, and desire shape who we are to others–and ourselves.

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Retirement Plan’ by Sue Hincenbergs

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs. In this wickedly clever debut, four longtime friends, fed up with their failing marriages and bleak retirements, hatch a deadly plan to cash in on their husbands’ life insurance policies. But the husbands have their own

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The CIA Book Club ‘ by Charlie English

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The CIA Book Club by Charlie English. The CIA Book Club is a taut psychological thriller about buried secrets and a woman confronted by the daughter she thought was dead. Gripping and emotionally charged, it explores the dark edges of identity, memory,

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘The Wrong Daughter’ by Dandy Smith

This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith. When a woman claiming to be Olivia reappears decades after vanishing, her sister Caitlin is forced to confront the traumatic night she disappeared—and the secrets she’s kept ever since. But is this really Olivia? And what

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Whisky Valley’ by Joan Sauers

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Whisky Valley by Joan Sauers. A young violinist vanishes during a storm, drawing journalist Rose McHugh into a mystery of grief, ambition, and buried secrets. As danger closes in, Rose must protect her son and confront the past in this taut, emotionally-charged

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Best Left Buried’ by Neil A White

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Best Left Buried by Neil A White. In Best Left Buried, Australian spy-journalist Matt Latham takes on a ghostwriting gig in Texas—only to uncover a trail of CIA secrets, Cold War crimes, and a desperate search for identity stretching from Nicaragua to

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘All the Perfect Days’ by Michael Thompson

This week, we’re giving away three copies of All the Perfect Days by Michael Thompson. All the Perfect Days is a poignant, magical realism-infused love story about a small-town doctor who suddenly knows exactly how long people have left to live. As he helps others make the most of their

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Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Invisible Woman’ by Katia Lief

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Invisible Woman by Katia Lief. When a Hollywood scandal resurfaces a long-buried secret, former filmmaker Joni Ackerman is forced to confront the cost of her choices—and the unraveling of her marriage. As past and present collide in Brooklyn, and inspiration from dark

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Julie Chan is Dead’ by Liann Zhang

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang. Julie Chan finds her influencer twin dead and decides to take her place. But living Chloe’s high-gloss life means hiding big lies, and someone’s catching on. Sharp, addictive, and full of dark twists, Julie Chan

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘I Want Everything’ by Dominic Amerena

This week, we’re giving away three copies of I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena. A young writer’s ambition leads him into a web of lies when he discovers reclusive author Brenda Shales. As she unravels her past, truth and deception blur, forcing him to question his own ethics. I Want

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