By Georgina Chadderton Come to Georgina’s workshop here (kids only!)   I’ve been writing and drawing comics for almost as long as I can remember and have found comics the perfect medium to help me share the stories I have to tell. ‘Why comics?’ I hear you ask—well, let me explain! I love reading, writing […]

By Barbara Santich Food writing, paradoxically, is not really about food. Or not objectively about food in isolation. More often, food writing is about people and their experiences of growing, sourcing, cooking, offering and eating food; it’s about their relationships with food, their memories associated with food, the place of food in their lives. Writing […]

By Lou Heinrich NB: Lou will be presenting ‘How to Interview Like a Journalist’ as part of the Teenage Boot Camp.   A writer who can’t interview is like a fisherman who doesn’t know how cast a line. It’s an essential element of gathering information; novelists, screenwriters, journos and memoirists all have to discover how […]

By Louise Pascale Blogs come in all shapes and forms. They can be one word, one sentence, one paragraph, one page or 10 pages. A blog is however long or short you wanting it to be, this is self-publishing. You decide. Yet how long you make your blog is really only one of the many […]

By Ben Brooker Everybody has a point of view but it takes more than just an opinion to be able to write a review that other people will want to read. Your job as a reviewer is not just to tell your readers if you thought a book, play or movie was good or bad […]

Mike Ladd gives ten short tips on how to assess if a poem is successful: It entertains – in the broadest sense, you want to stay with it. It’s visual/aural/sensual. It has intelligence and feeling. Not only do you come away with ideas, but the sense of having felt something, experienced it. It’s memorable, you […]

Carissa Lee Goodwin, ATSI Program Coordinator If you were a supermarket item, what would you be and why? Garlic tofu. Because it’s awesome, and for some reason only certain Coles supermarkets have it, you have to go on a bit of a quest for it. If you could be a super hero, what power would […]

By Sarah Tooth Earlier this year I was lucky enough to have been invited to attend the 2014 Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference in Singapore in July by Jane Camens. Jane is a tireless supporter of writers and writing, who has built the APWT organisation to support strong literary networks in our region. (more…)

Sarah Gates, Administration Assistant  If you could be a super hero, what power would you like to have? Teleportation: apart from the exquisite holidays and abundant international travel, I would cut out all the useless time spent commuting to university, work and anywhere else. And I could rescue people from natural disasters, if super heroes […]

By Cameron Raynes How important is visualisation to the writer? To be able to see, in some small strange way, the characters you have created, the places they live, the things they do? How they hold themselves? How others around them react to what they do? (more…)

By Vanessa Jones As a writer, you may be quick to disregard LinkedIn assuming that it’s for those who work in the corporate world only. But the professional business networking site, which has been around for nearly twelve years, has over 300 million users and shouldn’t be underestimated as a tool for writers.  (more…)

By Cameron Raynes You’ve got a rough idea of the novel or short story you want to write. Or you’ve written one, but it doesn’t quite hang together or compel the reader to keep turning the page. What do you do? Is it possible that methods and approaches to writing for film can be harnessed […]

By Serena Wong We sometimes have this suspicion that art is trying to trick us, pull the wool over our eyes and ridicule our taste. But in reality, art is just another language. Not the language of an elite club guarded by secret codes, but a tool to distil the chaos of the world around […]

By Rose Hartley (SAWC’s Writer in Residence) Melbourne’s Emerging Writers Festival is too big to take in all at once, so I picked the most delicious-sounding events to attend. And what a feast for the ears it was. Launch of Poetic Justice I was in Melbourne for the launch of Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices […]

By Annie Waters (coeditor of Dubnium) If you had told me, three months ago, that I would have solicited, read and edited over seventy pieces of writing, whittling them down to twenty which were then polished, formatted and compiled into an e-book and limited print edition; had you told me that, I would have laughed/vomited […]