Category: Alumni/Student success stories

Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Megan Blandford

We spotted Megan in The Sydney Morning Herald recently! Congratulations Megan! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Emily Morgan

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Emily says: I had a

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Kym Campradt

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Kym says: I have been

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Donna Webeck

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Donna says: I recently wrote

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Libby Hakim

We spotted Libby in Sunday Life recently! Congratulations Libby! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Student Success Stories: Tasmanian tours, fostering and travel tales!

When our students study Magazine and Newspaper Writing or Travel Writing, they learn that you can often turn one idea or destination into many stories. Someone who took this concept and ran with it was graduate Lilani Goonesena, turning a tour into no less than EIGHT stories. Lilani did our Food

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Student Successes: 2 of Us, typewriters and more…

“It all started with a slippery satin ribbon at the local races. A kindly gentleman offered to re-tie my offending ribbon (on the back of my dress), and as he tied he dropped his rather official looking clipboard. He was the race starter and from him I met all the

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Evelyn Lewin

We spotted Evelyn in Sunday Life recently! Congratulations Evelyn! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Student Success Stories: Competitions, book deals and more!

Have you had a win as a writer since completing a course at Australian Writers’ Centre? Big, small or medium-sized, we’d love to hear about it! Someone who loves her new life as a “semi-part-time writer” is Kristie Hayden, working from home and having life rudely interrupt her at every moment.

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Linda Anderson

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Linda says: After spending a month

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Carla Francis

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Carla says: Hi Everyone! I

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Jennifer Smart: “Write what you know” yields debut novel

“There’s a story here. There’s definitely a story here.” That was Jennifer Smart’s hunch, having worked behind the screens in film and television for many years, including five years on Home and Away. And she was in a position to know – having even penned two scripts of the hit

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Lisa Venables: Memoir unearths a love of writing

Telling stories is what it’s all about here at the Australian Writers’ Centre. And for Lisa Venables, recounting a very difficult time in her family’s life provided her with both an emotional and creative outlet. That outlet became her book, Saving Zali – telling the story of her infant daughter’s

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Laksmhi Singh

We spotted Laksmhi in Sunday Life recently! Thrilled to see @writerscentreau grad Laksmhi Singh’s article in Sunday Life this week! A photo posted by Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo) on Oct 13, 2014 at 6:30pm PDT Congratulations Laksmhi! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Fleur Ferris

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Fleur says: When I was

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Alumni/Student success stories
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

"I got published!": Lisa Chaplin

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Lisa says: I sold my

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