Charles Dickens wishes AWC a happy 10th birthday

When you get a special message from a dead author, you pay attention. Especially when the author is Charles Dickens! He sent this message to us from beyond the grave because he wanted to wish us happy 10th birthday! Thanks Chuck.

“It was the best of 10 years, it was the worst of 10 years, it was the age of courses, it was the age of enrolments, it was the epoch of blogging, it was the epoch of creativity, it was the season of life writing, it was the season of murder writing, it was the spring of sentences, it was the winter of words – in short, the period was so far like the full stop, in the superlative degree of punctuation only. Please Australian Writers’ Centre, I want some more.”

Charles Dickens

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