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JOB ADVERTISEMENT Melbourne Writers Festival is an internationally acclaimed festival that celebrates literature and the work of writers. This is a rare opportunity for a knowledgeable and innovative literary programmer to join MWF’s management team as the Festival enters its 30th year. For more information, visit the Melbourne Writers Festival website.

The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered biennially for the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society. Without further ado, here’s the press release in all it’s glory: It is with

Right now, it seems everyone is raising money for something. Maybe you’ve already received a few emails this week from friends and family members asking for support. And maybe you’re fed up with very distant acquaintances asking you to give money to develop some technology you don’t understand, or create

Next week, blogger Christina Soong will be heading off to Turkey and Abu Dhabi for the trip of a lifetime. Christina was the winner of the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Best Australian Blogs Competition for 2014. And thanks to our competition sponsors at Trafalgar, Christina’s prize included an amazing trip to

BOOK NOW Who is speaking at this event: Allison Tait is a multi-genre writer who has more than 20 years’ experience in magazines, newspapers and online publishing. Her children’s novel The Mapmaker Chronicles: Race to the End of the World has just been released by Hachette, under the name A.L.

We’re thrilled to announce that Life Writing graduate Robyn Windshuttle is celebrating the launch of her book Dancing with a Cocaine Cowboy – and she’d love for you to join her! The story of how an Australian showgirl became entangled in her boyfriend’s European cocaine ring and how it changed her life

Hachette wants to read your Young Adult manuscript. Yes you. So it’s time to pull your manuscript out of wherever it’s hiding and get it in shape!

From the press release:

Hachette Australia is proud to publish amazing YA authors from Australia and around the world, including Jessica Shirvington, John Marsden, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Ally Carter and James Phelan – and we’d love to add your name to that list. Throughout October, we will be accepting submissions of YA novels in all genres. If we fall in love with your manuscript, you will receive editorial feedback, and you may be offered a contract for publication.

We have some very exciting news to share this week. Our West Australian State Director Alecia Hancock has been chosen as a finalist for the WA Telstra Young Business Women’s Award for 2014. Well done Alecia!

Alecia joined the Australian Writers’ Centre family at the start of 2014 when she launched the Centre on the west coast. In a little over six months, we’ve already had hundreds of students through our Perth doors and we’re looking forward to meeting a lot more of you in the months to come.

Monday 20 October 2014 Time: 6.30–8.30pm Although the official time is from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, you are welcome to stay as long as you like – and we imagine many of you will! Who: William Yeoman is Literary Editor and West Weekend Staff Writer at The West Australian, and will

So you’ve devoured your fave books on Kindle and highlighted a bunch of passages that resonate with you. But how can you get those passages out of your Kindle and into a workable document (like Word or Evernote)?

Whether you want to print them out, use them in an article you’re writing (which you’ll attribute correctly of course!) or something else entirely, here’s how you can do it:

If I were to say Newcastle to you in some kind of abstract word-association game, what would come to mind? If replied aloud to your screen “The National Young Writers’ Festival, of course” you receive bonus points because you read the title of this post.

Not only is the National Young Writers’ Festival in it’s 17th year, but they’re celebrating with a giant party across Newcastle with guests from all over the country.

Here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we love social media and connecting with other writers around the world. When this press release arrived in our inbox we were pretty excited. We think it looks promising – but what do you think? Would you use Tablo?

From press release:

Publishing startup Tablo today announced the launch of new social features for its cloud-based e-book publishing service. This marks the biggest shift in the platform since its launch in 2013.

Last week was the Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival, held in Bowral. I was thrilled to speak on a panel on “How to Get Published”, along with fellow panellists Carol George (Commissioning Editor at Penguin Books) and Laura Greaves (author of Be My Baby). Moderated by journalist and author William Verity, he suggested that the title was a misnomer. After all, these days anyone can “get published” when you consider that self-publishing has become very easy and is also extremely affordable.

William said that the more pertinent issue is probably “How to Sell More Books” and that brings in a whole raft of questions about marketing your book and yourself. The bottom line is that you might have the best book in the world, but that’s a moot point if no one knows about it. It may as well be still sitting in your bottom drawer!

What followed was a lively discussion on what you need to do in order to give yourself the best chance at increasing your book sales – and thus the amount of your royalty cheque.

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Monday 21 July 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Although the official time is from 6.30pm to 8pm, you are welcome to stay as long as you like – and we imagine many of you will! Who: Dr Dawn Barker is a child psychiatrist and author. In 2010, Dawn’s first novel, Fractured, was

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Universal Magazines has been publishing since 1986 and is Australia’s leading specialist publisher of niche market titles. Based in North Ryde, a full-time in-house position has become available in the Home DesignGroup for an editorial assistant to work on a range of titles in the department.

Reporting to the deputy editor, the position includes…

The Australian Writers’ Centre posts job advertisements which may be of interest to readers. However, this should not be taken as a sign of endorsement. Please do your own research when applying for any jobs mentioned on this site.

KarryOn is ‘the voice of the travel industry’ and a digital platform for travel industry community to share news, experiences, insights and resources. With a growing consumer audience KarryOn is offering relevant, fun and interesting lifestyle content in addition to travel news.

In this commencement address to a university, Jim Carrey talks about a key lesson learnt from watching his father: “You can fail at what you don’t want. So you may as well take a chance at doing what you love.” Viewing time: 1 minute Next time, you’re wondering whether to

Here’s a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Australian Writers’ Centre. With all our courses, it’s always a hive of activity for our students in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Online. We thought we’d show you some insider pics so you see what else goes on at the Centre. Our

We love these gorgeous scented candles. Whether you want some mood lighting for a cosy night in, or to burn a citrus scent for some zing in the office, the great thing about these candles is that each of them are named after a well-known book! From Murphy & Daughters,