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FROM VALERIE KHOO: We recently contributed an article on "Winning Words at Work" for Insurance and Risk Professional magazine. The way you write at work can have an impact on your career and your business relationships. Even though many of...
Ah, two whole weeks off! What will I do with all that free time? Well, apart from travelling from one state to the next (Sydney to Melbourne to Woodford in Queensland), I will be taking some time out for reading....
Paris. Just saying the name evokes images of romantic walks along the Seine, gothic cathedrals, beautiful classic architecture, and revolution. The city has been home to countless writers, philosophers and artists, and for 16 days in October this year it...
Liz Byrski is a freelance journalist and author of 14 non-fiction and fiction books. As a journalist she has over 40 years’ experience in the media, both in England and Australia. She worked on ABC Radio in Perth and went on to become an executive producer there. ...
Here it is - this week's newsletter prize! Don't forget, if you want to enter you need to subscribe to our newsletter. You can subscribe here. Also, there was a teeny, tiny error in the newsletter yesterday. I asked you...
FROM VALERIE KHOO: As you may have noticed, we've increasingly been using videos to communicate and share ideas with the wonderful community at the Sydney Writers' Centre. You can check out my latest message to you here. We'd love to...
We received some very exciting news yesterday about two of our fabulous creative writing teachers. Pamela Freeman and Kate Forsyth have both been shortlisted for the 2009 Aurealis Awards. The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s most significant prize for fantasy, science...
Elizabeth Gilbert - author of the best-selling book Eat, Pray, Love - speaks at the TED conference on "the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses". She talks about how, after the runaway success of her book, everyone now...
This short video shows the power of words. When you craft your message, it’s important to remember that it’s not just the words you choose, it’s the order in which you decide to use them that can make all the...
Tom Rob Smith is the author of Child 44, which won huge acclaim when it was released in 2008. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, won the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger prize for best thriller and was nominated for the Costa First Novel Award (formerly the Whitbread Awards)...
One of our recent podcast interviewees, Gregor Salmon, has been busy working the promotional trail for his latest book Poppy. Salmon, a journalist, visited Afghanistan in 2007 in an attempt to make sense of the burgeoning poppy and heroin industry...
Last week’s Word Wise piece in our newsletter, on the history of the ‘blurb’, piqued my interest about Gellet Burgess and his satirical take on quotes used by authors and publishers on their book covers. For anyone who missed out,...
Jack Marx is a journalist, blogger and author. As a journalist, Marx has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Rolling Stone, The Times, The Age, Men’s Style, Ralph, Australian Traveller and many others. ...
