Are you short story writer or a poet? Then these two competitions from Nillumbik Shire in Victoria might be up your alley and are now OPEN. The Nillumbik Shire in Victoria is running a short story competition and a poetry competition for Australian residents. They are the Alan Marshall Short Story Award

This week, thanks to StudioCanal we have 10 double passes to new film The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, opening nationwide on 19 April 2018. Based on Mary Ann Shaffer’s internationally bestselling novel of the same name, the film stars Lily James (Downton Abbey, Cinderella) as Juliet, a

This week, we’re giving away three SIGNED copies of the latest middle grade adventure book by A.L. Tait – The Book of Answers! This is the second book in the gripping Ateban Cipher series. Many will know the author as Allison Tait – the other half of our podcast team

Here’s a novel idea for a writing competition— you’re given the opening and closing lines from one of three classic works and you write the rest! Hence the name the Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition. From the Literary Taxidermy Website: The Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition is open to all.

Grief and loss are powerful emotions, be it the loss of a job, a loved one, a pet. The Grieve Writing Competition, organised by the Hunter Writers Centre, is open to all explorations of grief and accepts stories and poems on any topic related to loss. From the Hunter Writers

This week, we’re giving away three copies of  The Lebs  – a confronting new novel from The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelist winner, Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Leb is of course short for ‘Lebanese’ and this story follows Bani Adam – who thinks his school, Punchbowl Boys, is the arse end

We were stoked to spot a familiar name in the 2018 shortlist for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature. Our very own creative writing AWC presenter, Nicole Hayes, has been recognised for her novel A Shadow’s Breath. From the State Library of NSW website: The Ethel Turner Prize

This week, thanks to Madman Entertainment we have 10 double passes to The Death of Stalin – a comedy that has been banned in Russia and loosely based on true events! Here’s what is being said about it: “The one-liners fly fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly

We’re delighted for super-talented children’s author and AWC alumnus, Tamsin Janu, who has not one, but TWO novels in the shortlist for the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature.) Tamsin came up with the idea for her first book during her AWC course How to

This week, we’re giving away a copy of fascinating new true crime biography A Scandal in Bohemia – The Life and Death of Mollie Bean by Gideon Haigh. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, Mollie Bean was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse within Melbourne’s bohemian salons in the early 20th

Are you Australia’s next great storyteller? Do you have a manuscript sitting collecting dust in a drawer? A sweeping saga of unrequited love set in the Australian outback during the Gold Rush era or perhaps a nail-biting psychological thriller guaranteed to frighten the pants off the toughest of them all?