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Writing Podcast Episode 470: Meet Gary Nunn, author of ‘The Psychic Tests’

How you can build a lucrative career as a children’s author. Could a writing accountability buddy help you to achieve your goals? And meet Gary Nunn, author of ‘The Psychic Tests’. Plus, we have 3 copies of ‘The Trivia Night’ by Ali Lowe to giveaway.

Writing Podcast Episode 469: Meet Al Campbell, author of ‘The Keepers’.

Meet Al Campbell, author of ‘The Keepers’. Also: The unexpected benefits of writing. Do you need to incorporate feedback into your manuscript? Plus, we have 3 copies of ‘Violeta’ by Isabel Allende to giveaway.

AWC alumna Freda Chiu on the Ena Noël Award Shortlist 2022

Huge congratulations to Freda Chiu on being shortlisted for the Ena Noël Award Shortlist 2022! This is an incredible achievement for Freda who wrote and illustrated her picture book A Trip to the Hospital (Allen & Unwin), published last year. Although she was a successful freelance artist and educator when she started thinking about books, […]

Writing Podcast Episode 458: Meet Anika Molesworth, author of ‘Our Sunburnt Country’

Meet Anika Molesworth, author of Our Sunburnt Country. Want to enter the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize? Plus, discover how you could win our massive holiday reading 15-book pack!

Writing Podcast Episode 452: Meet Fiona Murphy, author of ‘The Shape of Sound’

Meet Fiona Murphy, author of ‘The Shape of Sound’. Prizes for unpublished manuscripts that are now open. Discover your must-read lists for children’s and young adult books. Plus, we have 10 double passes to ‘A Boy Called Christmas’, in cinemas 25 November to give away.

Writing Podcast Episode 451: Tania Blanchard discusses her latest novel ‘Echoes of War’ [Story Sessions series]

We’ve been big fans of Tania’s gorgeous historical fiction ever since her first bestselling novel, The Girl From Munich, which she published after attending a few of our courses here at the Australian Writers’ Centre. She has since gone on to publish its sequel, Suitcase of Dreams, and another wartime novel, Letters from Berlin – and […]

Writing Podcast Episode 449: Joanna Nell discusses her latest novel ‘The Tea Ladies of St Jude’s Hospital’ [Story Sessions series]

This is the latest novel by Joanna, whose previous bestselling books include The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village, The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home. And of course, it’s wonderful to see Joanna doing so well in her writing career as she is one of our […]

Jacinta Froud: From teacher to published children’s author

When Jacinta Froud came across the Writing Picture Books course at AWC, she jumped at the chance to learn the practical storytelling skills for children’s fiction.

“I loved the fact that it was online, self-paced and that I could complete the course around my family commitments,” Jacinta says. “I made connections with the lovely writing community and more recently I secured a publishing deal with the amazing Larrikin House.”

Jacinta’s debut picture book Jingle Belly will be published by Larrikin House in November 2021, with illustrations by Gabriella Petruso.

Gary Nunn: From freelance journalist to published author of ‘The Psychic Tests’

Although he had a successful career as a freelance journalist, Gary turned to the Australian Writers’ Centre to help hone his craft in writing fiction and creative non-fiction. The result is his first book, The Psychic Tests: An Adventure In The World Of Believers and Sceptics, published by Pantera Press.

“The AWC was such a key part of that: meeting other writers, access to those who’d done it, the community that forms around those taking a course. Writing can be such a solitary pursuit for a gregarious, garrulous person like me! The AWC was the antidote to that.”

AWC alumna Veronica Lando wins the HarperCollins 2021 Banjo Prize

Publishing house HarperCollins launched the Banjo Prize in 2018, as “a quest to find Australia’s next great storyteller” – inviting unpublished commercial fiction manuscripts and awarding each year’s winner with a publishing contract. Now in its fourth year, the Banjo Prize recently announced its 2021 winner. And we were SO excited to see that it […]