By Catherine Bauer If revenge is a dish best served cold, perhaps when it comes to rejection, it would be best if the kitchen misplaced your order! A boo is louder than a cheer and rejection, no matter how nicely worded, can feel world ending. Doesn’t matter if it’s the love of your life, your […]

in partnership with The Walkley Foundation In an Adelaide first, we’re offering an exclusive opportunity to learn from some of the greatest digital innovators from around the country, in partnership with the Walkley Foundation. The Boot Camp will provide an overview plus practical tutorials in the web tools, apps and techniques being used right now […]

Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, Laura Kroetsch, gave a special presentation to SA Writers Centre members to let us know her top picks for AWW. http://youtu.be/ETRWd2_ENWE (more…)

SA Writers Centre’s industry forum during Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2014. “Getting Discovered” featuring Jeff Sparrow, Jane Novak, Julianne Schultz and chaired by Jennifer Mills. (more…)

By Max Anderson I got paid $1200 and $500. There. I told you. Who paid it? Not telling. But I will say the $1200 payment was for a story published in a highly regarded overseas magazine. And that sounds a lot, right? Well yes and no. For one thing the payment was for 2400 words, […]

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 […]

Food & Drink Writer, Time Out Melbourne Are you a gun food writer adept at reviewing restaurants, cafés and pubs? Do you have your finger on the pulse of Melbourne’s dynamic food and drink scene? (more…)

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 […]

Call out for Quick and Dirty performers. Event to be held 30th October 2014. The title is ‘Grave Matters’ and is a collections of readings that explore mortality. (more…)

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…)

7 August 2014 (more…)

SA Writers Centre and Wakefield Press will be presenting a stylish dinner that marries the two worlds of art and literature as part of the SALA festival this year. On 7 August, at 7pm guests are invited to join art world aficionados to discuss the importance of literature and how it can support art. Writers […]

By Angela Meyer On my desktop is a whisky wheel, a device that’s supposed to help you with your tasting notes when sampling single malts. Does your drink have a touch of black pepper on the nose? Or is it orange blossom? Is it lactic or nutty on the palate? Is the finish more toward […]

By Cassandra Dean and Lucy Clark Cassandra and Lucy provide insight into a common mistake. In their capacity as editors, they come across the same misstep all too often – a rush through scenes and situations, so that all emotion and depth is lost. A reader wants to feel the emotion deeply, wants to experience […]

If you are not fortunate enough to have an editor then a little distance between the completion of a first draft and an edit can be useful. Time to forget what you were actually writing about can help the writer to approach the story as a reader might. Can you answer these questions? What is […]