Suzi Dafnis from the wonderful Australian Businesswomen’s Network has organised a Tweetchat with Valerie Khoo on Thursday 29 May. This is a chance for anyone to ask Valerie questions in real time (via Twitter) about writing your own book. You’ll have to be succinct – because your question will need to fit
Congratulations to Graeme Simsion on winning Book of the Year for The Rosie Project! This was announced at the 14th Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) in Sydney on 23 May 2014. FROM MEDIA RELEASE: Other big winners included the recipient of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, for
With the average maximum temperature for July in Bowral sitting at 12C, you wouldn’t be alone in thinking that a little winter hibernation might be in order. Not so for those in the community: July is when the town comes alive for the Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival (SHWF), and they’d like you to join them!
With writing greats such as PJ Travers (Mary Poppins), Patrick White, Miles Franklin and screenwriter Terry Hayes (Mad Max) all hailing from the area, it’s not surprising that the creative community is alive and well in the Southern Highlands. With many in the region isolated on farms out of the main city, the SHWF provides a great opportunity for everyone come together and share their love of writing.
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Full-time position
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Part-time position (approx. 3 consecutive days per week)
Milsons Point (North Sydney) close to train station
Melbourne location considered for the right applicant
Winner in the Telstra Business Awards
Applications close 5pm Wednesday 7 May 2014.
We’re not even sure if this letter is real. But we kind of hope so. It’s purportedly written by a student to an English teacher at a school called McKinley. We love the response from the teacher! Real or not, it’s a great lesson in punctuation and grammar. If
Time and date: Wednesday 29 January 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Who: Writer, author, speaker, coach and blogger Natalie Sisson, founder of popular blog, ‘The Suitcase Entrepreneur’. In 2013, Natalie lived in over 14 countries. Leaving her hometown of New Zealand in 2006, she’s been dubbed ‘The Suitcase Entrepreneur’, travelling the world,
Time and date: Tuesday 1 April 2014 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: Tristan Bancks is an author of books for children and teens. He has a background
We’re holding a FREE Perth Information Night and Meet-up Time and date: Monday 20 January 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Who: Meet Australian Writers’ Centre National Director Valerie Khoo and State Director – WA Alecia Hancock. They’ll be speaking about the Centre’s launch in Perth and answering any questions you may have.
Where can you find a buzzing cafe and bar scene, beautiful beaches, plenty of boutique shopping and a celebration of Australian literature? From Friday 4 to Sunday 6 April 2014, the answer is at the Newcastle Writers Festival.
Following a successful first year, the Newcastle Writers Festival is back and fast becoming a must-see event in the Australian writing scene, with an anticipated 3,500 attendees this year and over 80 writers taking part.
Now in her second year as NWF director, we sat down with Rosemarie Milsom to find out more.
We have a bit of a typewriter obsession here at the Australian Writers’ Centre. In fact, it isn’t surprising to find our national director Valerie Khoo trawling through antique stores in search of the perfect vintage typewriter.
So we couldn’t resist sharing this awesome poster with you.
Caroline Overington is an award-winning journalist, magazine editor and author. She has twice been awarded a Walkley Award for investigative journalism – in 2004 for for her investigation into the author Norma Khouri (along with Malcolm Knox) and in 2006 for her coverage of the Australian Wheat Board Scandal –
A prodigious children’s book writer with well over 100 titles across a variety of genres to her credit, Jackie French is best known for her 1999 novel Hitler’s Daughter, which was awarded the 2000 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers. Another of her books, To the Moon and
Born in Italy in 1959, Diego Marani is a man of many talents. A highly regarded translator, he is the creator of Europanto, a mock ‘international auxiliary language’ (a language invented for use by people who don’t share a common mother tongue), in which he has published short stories, articles
Deborah Levy began her creative career as a playwright in 1981 when she left the Darlington College of Arts to write plays including Pax, Call Blue Jane, Shiny Nylon and Heresies: Eva and Moses, which was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. While her plays were acclaimed for their “intellectual rigour,
An award-winning Australian writer, novelist, storyteller, and human rights advocate, Arnold Zable combines a prodigious creative output with extensive human rights advocacy work. Recently appointed as a Vice-Chancellor’s fellow at the University of Melbourne following his completion of doctorate in Creative Arts, he is the author of a broad range
Acclaimed for the ‘fearless honesty of her work’, Krissy Kneen has worked across a number of different writing genres. The author of Steeplechase (2013), she has also written a collection of erotica Swallow the Sound (2007), a memoir Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy (2009), which was shortlisted for the 2010
Michael Robotham is an Australian crime fiction writer. His latest book is Watching You, a terrifying thriller featuring clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin who has appeared in many of Michael’s previous books. Michael began his writing life as a journalist, then moved into ghost writing. As a ghost writer, he wrote 15
Jane Gleeson-White is an Australian author and blogger. Her latest book is Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world – and how their invention could make or break the planet, an exploration of the history of double-entry bookkeeping. She has also published two books about books –
The winner of the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2011, Hannah Kent spent a transformative year at the age of 18 in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland as part of the Rotary Exchange Program. During her time in the country, she came across the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman
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