An exciting opportunity for children’s book authors – Berbay Publishing has opened its doors to submissions. They’re accepting chapter book and junior fiction manuscripts for consideration. According to their media release: We’d like to see contemporary narratives, with or without a touch of whimsy, and stories that inspire the imagination.
So you’ve taken the plunge and signed up for an online course. Congratulations! This is the first step in an amazing online learning journey. If you haven’t studied online before, you might be feeling a bit wary. What’s the technology like? Who can you turn to for support? Can you
This week’s book giveaway is Death in the Ladies’ Goddess Club from bestselling Australian author Julian Leatherdale. The novel takes us to the shady underbelly and glamorous fringe of Sydney’s Kings Cross in the 1930s for a depression-era dose of murder and blackmail, family drama and love. We have three
“Two couples. One baby. An unimaginable choice.” This week’s book giveaway is The Mothers – a new novel from Australian journalist and author, Genevieve Gannon. It explores a harrowing question: What if the baby you gave birth to belonged to someone else? Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties
Attention picture book writers. If you have an original picture book manuscript burning a hole in your proverbial drafts’ drawer, now’s the time to pick it up and dust it off. The 2020 Writers Unleashed Picture Book Writing Competition is now open and is offering some sweet prizes. First prize
Love the thrill (and deadline!) of entering writing competitions? So do we. They can be great for boosting your right brain along with your productivity. We’ve compiled some awesome opportunities for writers in 2020 so you can explore your imagination, refine your techniques and – who knows, maybe win some
“How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars?” This week’s book giveaway is Cops, Drugs, Lawyer X and Me – the astonishing true story of Paul Dale, a cop who found himself enmeshed in the
Above: Currarong Beach Cottage – South Coast Escapes This blog post was written by author and AWC presenter, Allison Tait Summer might be over, and the bushfires and floods behind us, but for some communities, the rebuilding is just beginning – and is going to take some time. How can we,
It’s a celebration of children’s books this week as the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) announced their list of Notable Books for the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. We’ll find out which books are selected for the shortlist later this year. But for now, we’re jumping for
This week’s giveaway book is from multi award-winning Australian novelist, columnist and non-fiction writer Maggie Groff, bestselling author of Mothers Behaving Badly. Her latest book is Mrs Groff’s Mischievous Book of Motherhood Management. You can fool all of the children some of the time, and some of the children all
Do you want to be a writer? Don’t know where to start? Or whether you should quit your day job? Join internationally published bestselling children’s author Allison Tait, co-host of our top-rating So You Want To Be A Writer podcast, for this exciting fundraising seminar for the Shoalhaven Readers’ &
We’re absolutely thrilled that our amazing presenter Lesley Gibbes has published another children’s book. Three Little Mermaids, which is beautifully illustrated by Lisa Stewart, is out now with Scholastic Australia. Lesley is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books for children. Her chapter book series Fizz has been
This week’s giveaway book is Death of a Typographer – Australian writer Nick Gadd’s second novel. Here’s a quick synopsis: In the book, we meet Martin Kern, who has a special sensitivity to fonts – a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. When a local printer is found
“Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months – surely they’re connected?…” This week’s giveaway is a powerful new thriller from bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty. The novel is called Platform Seven and it goes a little something like this… Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough
“When a promise kept means a life is broken …” This week’s giveaway is from Australian fiction author Pamela Cook – writer of Black Wattle Lake, Essie’s Way, Close to Home and The Crossroads. We interviewed her recently in episode 315 of our podcast, and her latest novel is Cross
We already knew that AWC presenter Pamela Freeman was amazing but now we think she’s stratospheric! She currently has not one, not two, not five, but NINE books under contract! Incredible. We were so impressed by this feat that we had to ask Pamela just what it means to have
Furphy might be better known in Australia as a beer. However, the company is hosting a competition for short stories with a prize of $15,000! According to the Furphy Story website: Everyone can write at least one good story. That was the belief of J. F. Archibald, the editor and
Want our newsletter emailed to you every Thursday? Sign up here! 30 January 2020 Last week, I promised you the big reveal of the 5-metre public art installation I’ve designed that’s going to be exhibited at Circular Quay in Sydney. Well, like many things that have to go through a creative
Do you have digitally published works? Then we have a prize for you! The Woollahra Digital Literary Award celebrates works originally published in a digital format – e.g. epub, online articles etc. And, it’s in its fourth year and going strong. There are guidelines for eligible work (it can’t just
This week’s giveaway is number one bestselling author Mitch Albom’s new book, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family. Mitch is most known for the international sensation Tuesdays with Morrie. This is his first work of nonfiction in 10 years and his most personal
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