What’s it like to learn with AWC?

Jen was awesome. Very honest and open feedback.

The main thing I loved was the variety of feedback I received on my submissions. It was truly helpful. I found my strengths and weaknesses very quickly and I now know what I need to focus on in my future writing.

The AWC is an accelerator for aspiring writers with education, community, and accountability built in!

I feel extremely motivated and confident after completing this course and can't wait to get started on building my database, my website, getting business cards, etc etc. The practical advice on the course was super.

Bernadette was fantastic. Her feedback was always very positive but also constructive. I also thought that the time I had to dedicate to this course in the space of a week was very manageable.

I enjoyed the assignments. I loved how I could apply the techniques to different businesses, services and products and I found the feedback extremely valuable.

For the last few years I have been procrastinating about setting up my own writing business. I have tried various different courses and enjoyed them all and took a Masters in Multimedia journalism. I have also been working running our family business with my husband. This course seemed to highlight the path I should be going down, combining my business skills with writing, and in the 5 weeks I've got my website started, business cards designed and am raring to get started.

It's a very flexible way to learn and not too onerous in terms of time during the week. The practical advice about starting a career in writing is great too. It's not all just about the writing, but the writing part is great too.

I have learned a great deal from every one of the courses I have taken at the Australian Writers' Centre, but this one has been fantastic in terms of being just the right thing at the right time for me to move my writing career forward. Thank you, Bernadette.

Bernadette Foley is a great facilitator, who offers thoughtful feedback and good, practical advice for all course members. It's been a pleasure to share time with her, and the other participants, over the past six weeks.

I enjoyed the considered and useful feedback provided by everyone who took part in this course - and also the opportunity to meet such an interesting range of characters and other worlds.

AWC courses are practical, focused and great value. Highly recommended.

Bernadette is just amazing. So experienced and honest with her teaching. I enjoyed the online community with other keen writers, the achievable expectations and the teacher's presence.

I am now clearer in strategic ways to write, power words and the confidence that I actually just may be great at copywriting.

You should look at AWC courses as they will give you the confidence to follow your dream, and upskill you to be the writer you want to be. Such clear teaching style and you will join a warm online community during and at the end.

Bernadette was excellent. She was very affirming, very helpful and managed the group with great skill. Her feedback was practical while not being too prescriptive.

I enjoyed the fortnightly exercises. I did not have a story that I was working on, so I just threw myself into the exercises to try out new skills. Very useful.

Great value and very useful. The tutors work to set up a safe environment for workshopping each other's work. It has given me the confidence to be bolder in my writing and keep going. I can now move forward with my ideas for a story.

Thoroughly enjoyed all of it and it opened my eyes to different opportunities. Has made me get off my backside and start doing the things I love and to achieve my writing goals.

If you would like an adventure to open yourself to new amazing opportunities this is the place to learn.

Started a story but had no training - wanted to increase my skills as a writer so I could finish the story and make it as good as it could be.

The tutor was extremely knowledgeable and encouraging. I've really appreciated all her feedback and time answering questions.

I enjoyed building a community (chat with the students) and real feedback on submissions. The course content was fantastic and I love that I can work through the modules in my own time.

I have more skills and more confidence to continue writing. I appreciate the messaging around finishing first drafts, and feel supported by other authors who have had the same doubts as me.

This course was a fantastic overview of everything you need to start building a real story. I looked forward to every Monday, when I could access the new lessons. I've loved being part of this beautiful community.

Thank you all! Thank you Petronella for your feedback, and thank you Abby for your support as well!

Writing has been something I've been interested in for a while. When I finally started researching a creative writing course to begin, the AWC courses stood out.

Due to writing being a completely new thing for me, I was worried the course would be too hard for me or too in depth, but I thoroughly enjoyed the five weeks of this course.

Suzanne's feedback was insightful, and constructive. She also gave such nice positive feedback which was a huge boost to someone like me who's never written anything before.

Even though I hated school as a teenager and dislike study, I found I actually really enjoyed the audio lessons and looked forward to the new week starting. I enjoyed taking notes and I found all of the content in the lessons to be very beneficial.

It has spurred me to take writing more seriously, and it's made me realise that the dream of being a writer isn't actually so far fetched as I thought.

I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the course, and I believe it's an excellent starting point into the world of creative writing.

Thank you to everyone involved that makes courses like these available, and so accessible. I had a great time learning the basics of creative writing and I'm very glad to have found this course :)

I enjoyed being accountable. Submitting to a criteria and deadline and, weirdly, excitedly anticipating the feedback, which was always very positive. Also, by hearing the feedback for the other course participants, there was useful tips and pointers to take on board for my own writing.

As always, submitting pieces of writing that were going to be read by someone was very daunting. I survived... Yay!!

Every tip, pointer and bit of encouragement gives me the confidence to continue to write and, having completed the course through AWC, I feel as though my journey as an aspiring author has been given more credibility.

Thanks for putting together a great course!! It is easy to access, the content is well structured, the requirement to complete the assignments keeps you accountable and the feedback on your work is a valuable way to nourish your writing growth.

Pamela is always very engaged with her students and their work, and very knowledgeable about writing theory and technique. She clearly wanted us to get as much as we could out of the course.

I enjoyed the regular weekly feedback sessions. Also enjoyed the recorded lessons and the editing steps were very useful.

It made me understand that editing is a systematic process that, if I plod through it step by step, will improve my story.

I thought the specifics in term of instructions, explanations and examples were fabulous. The tutor was brilliant. So much knowledge. I found learning about the process in such a chatty style entertaining and enlightening.

I actually loved the process of evaluating the way other travel writers had tackled the task.

I knew the time was going to be pressured and I struggled to keep pace, but I'm so glad I pushed myself to do it. I now have a lot more strategy to my vague idea that this is something I could now do.

Pamela is honestly the best writing teacher (or any teacher) I've ever had and I will always be grateful to her and glad I did this course! Writing a novel has been a lifelong dream of mine and I'm so close to being finished after doing this course.

Jenny was great, feedback very useful, she was helpful, positive and encouraging whilst providing useful feedback for improvement

It has inspired me to start writing more.

Don't die with the book still inside you. What have you got to lose? The AWC will help you and encourage you do be your best.

Doing the course gave me confidence to submit a whimsical article to the Weekend Australian Travel and Luxury liftout. They'll be publishing it in July!!

Doing an AWC course makes all the difference in having the confidence to move from dreamer to doer.

Thanks folks!!

Our tutor was fantastic. She gave detailed feedback and examples to each student. Her feedback was constructive and encouraging.

I felt the course was very well organised, from the audio to the handouts, exercises, assignments, feedback and group chat. I also liked the way facilitators encouraged us to chat and share ideas within the group.

I feel inspired to keep writing. :)

The course was well structured, professional, engaging and enjoyable. Thank you!

I enjoyed the course structure and doing the exercises. The best part was doing the assignments at the end. I felt I could have done more, which is a good thing!

I feel I have tools to start creating more detailed characters, scenes and worlds within which to tell my stories. I also have a greater understanding of the correct structure of a story and how to create an interesting tale.

Thank you. I really enjoyed the course and look forward to doing more in the future :-)

Try it! There's lots to learn and everyone is friendly and supportive.

I was concerned it would be another writing course that I would do and put away, not to be looked at again. However, this has been an incredible experience which has given me confidence in my writing with the techniques to help me finish and polish my stories, rather than having them sit on my computer not knowing what to do with them next.

It was a wonderful opportunity to have Cathie Tasker as a tutor - to have her background and knowledge giving me feedback and helping me with my story ideas (some 10+ years old) was a very valuable experience.

AWC wants you to succeed in your writing and gives you so much information to help you.

I have recently thought I might like to get involved with writing but not sure as to which specific type of writing and whether it would be a side-hustle activity or to aim for it to become my main source of income. So, I thought I would give the Freelance Writing course a go and to learn what was involved in putting together a feature article.

I thought Vivienne was great, I got a lot out of her feedback both on my and fellow online students' assignments.

The structure of the course was great in the modular format in which it was laid out. It has made the possibility of having an article published by newbie freelance writers seem doable!

I would definitely recommend a course by the AWC based on my positive experience of the Freelance Writing course.

After hearing Nat Amoore speak so highly of Cathie Tasker and reading about her illustrious career, I really wanted to do this course and be guided by her. I knew that Cathie's wealth of knowledge would help me grow and improve as a writer. I also found Cathie's feedback for myself and my classmates to be really helpful and I greatly appreciated her words of encouragement as well.

First of all, I absolutely loved that I could fit the course in around other commitments. I also enjoyed the challenge of submitting an assignment each week and getting Cathie's valuable feedback. Another aspect I was grateful for was to be able to go through this experience with a number of classmates. Being able to read each other's assignments and also each other's feedback from Cathie was a great way to learn even more.

I have learnt so much about writing children's picture books. I knew that there would be a lot to learn but never could have imagined just how complex it could actually be. Now that I have completed this course, I feel that I can create stories that have potential to be published. I don't think this would have been possible otherwise.

For me, the 'aha' moment was when I starting looking at my daughter's picture books after having learnt so much during this course. I feel like I'm seeing these much-loved stories in a whole new way with new-found appreciation.

I'd just like to say a very big Thank You to the team at the Australian Writers' Centre and especially to my lovely tutor Cathie Tasker. I thoroughly enjoyed the Writing Picture Books course and I look forward to putting what I've learnt into creating wonderful stories for children. Thanks again!

I highly recommend the Australian Writers' Centre to anyone who has an interest in writing and would love to take their writing to the next level!

I loved the course and feel equipped to start working.

Fantastic tutoring. I loved Bernadette's succinct and clear delivery. It's a blessing to have such an experienced tutor.

It's helped me be more succinct and direct. I'm confident enough to start working now. In fact, I'm midway through making my copywriting landing page!

It's a great foundation to learn more about a style of writing. It's well-structured. It works if you work it!

Thank you!