What’s it like to learn with AWC?
Each year, thousands of students just like you achieve their writing goals through our courses and world-class presenters. Here they share how their new-found skills and confidence enriched their life.
Pamela has a fabulous depth of knowledge in the area and shares it in a very encouraging way. Her feedback on all the students' submissions was incredibly helpful.
I enjoyed reading all the students' assignments and discovering the huge possibility there is still out there for writing great stories.
AWC offers great courses and an excellent range to suit just what it is you want to learn. Very professional and in touch with current industry practices. Good value and a great balance of challenging and achievable.
Bernadette was really engaging and insightful, sometimes felt like you could have been in the room just having a chat. She was very open and comfortable.
Very doable course. I learned so much in a short time and the study time and workload is very achievable.
Just a huge thank you; so glad I signed up.
Bernadette was amazing and the feedback was extremely helpful in making my copy sound professional.
I loved the assignments; they made everything make more sense once put into practice. I now know that copywriting as a career is for me.
I'd like to say a big Thank you to Bernadette and the AWC team for putting together such an amazing course! I've learnt lots and can truly say it has changed my life.
I would say don't think just do!
The course has given me the necessary steps to improve my website, which has eased my self-doubt. I feel more confident in working on my website.
The SEO information was explained well. I knew what it was for, but had no idea how Google and other search engines use it.
If you're building your website, this course will give you the tools to go forth confidently. If you have enlisted a website designer, this course will give you the information and confidence to answer the questions about what you want and what the designer can provide. Michelle Barraclough's points were easy to understand for even someone who isn't tech savvy.
The tutor was excellent with great feedback.
A well-taught course with an engaging tutor; this is the perfect introduction to the industry and how to get your foot in the door.
Bernadette was friendly and well informed - I really liked the way she explained concepts and ideas in a way that anyone could understand.
The course was fun and informative, and I love how I was able to apply the information learnt to running my restaurant's social media. It was important to me that I could use what I was learning straight away.
I tend to waffle on, so this course has helped me sift out the unnecessary hoo haa, and be more concise!
I would say that it is a friendly approachable course that is not too demanding, but is very informative. The process from start to finish was very smooth.
The course 💯 exceeded my expectation! The personalised verbal feedback was fantastic and so valuable to learning from mistakes. Or being told what you could have done instead. Something about that format made you really put the work in for the assignments.
I loved the assignments. And having a deadline to submit really meant you just had to get it done. I loved the feedback format. It gives that personable feel and it's great to listen to other feedback to learn from that as well.
Do it! It's really valuable, you're guaranteed to take learnings from each module and have new skills to take away. The assignments at the end of each module are relevant and help reinforce your learnings from that module. The personal, verbal feedback of each assignment is fantastic and helps you learn from not only your own feedback but from others. Overall the course is engaging and valuable, I now have the skills and confidence to put what I've learnt into practice and put myself out there as a freelance copywriter. I'm feeling very optimistic about my next steps into this world I didn't consider a career until now :)
The course certainly pushed me to write in unexpected ways, also to think carefully about feedback of other's work.
Bernadette was informative and encouraging, skilled in her feedback delivery and pushed us towards developing our writing.
The exercises were interesting and could be applied to my own projects with thought.
Each course I've taken with AWC has delivered a nugget of information (or more) that changed my writing process for the better in unexpected ways.
I enjoy writing and write blogs as advocacy for normalising disability. I wish to bring out more creativity in my blog writing and perhaps to write for publishing in the future.
The course format and Jennifer's feedback has helped me understand writing creatively a lot more. An unexpected outcome was reading the work of others and starting to understand what makes one piece of writing stand out more than another. I do hope to engage more in class feedback in the future.
Jennifer has a wonderful qualified and articulate strengths-based style of feedback. She is very detailed and listening to her feedback of all our work has helped me understand a little more how to create a good piece of writing.
I found the course to be very informative and have learnt so much in the 5 weeks. The feedback was helpful.
Jennifer was very professional and had great insight. Her feedback made sense and helped me see things differently. She was honest and helpful.
I feel the course has made me look at writing very differently. I understand much more about the art of writing and how to make it more appealing to a reader. As I read I can now analyze the structure of what I am reading as well as other aspects of the book. I feel the course has improved my writing.
This is a well-structured course that gives you lots of helpful information that will improve your knowledge and writing ability. It is easily accessible and fits into your schedule. It also gives you the opportunity to connect with other writers and gain valuable feedback from them.
I have enjoyed this course and am very happy I decided to participate.
This is a great entry level course that will give you the confidence to start writing that novel!
I have now written nearly 7000 words of my first novel! And feel a lot more confident that I can now do it.
I found Angela to be relatable. Creating an environment where amateurs feel comfortable to share their struggles involves plenty of encouragement and kindly-delivered criticism and she was excellent at doing this. I would highly recommend her.
I enjoyed the fact that I managed to produce a draft in such a short period of time (I had to rewrite)! I also learnt about the faults and flaws of my writing which will help me improve!
Keep coming up with these innovative courses!
Jennifer was great! She gave realistic constructive feedback and was equally attentive to everyone's work.
I now have the confidence to write my novel and pursue my dream of having it published!
I thought Jennifer was very thorough and it was clear she was really reading our work.
I liked the structure and the info. Very thorough...and reading other people's work. I think the final exercise to comment on others' work was helpful. Up until then, I had felt a bit like an imposter. I liked the real-time deadlines. If I'm left to submit when I feel like it I don't do anything usually.
I don't really write fiction but I understand the whole storytelling structure now. Rising tension etc. Really cool. I think all writing is creative writing anyway.
Bernadette has a wonderful voice and her style is authoritative without being condescending. Her sense of humour is refreshing and it felt like we were colleagues discussing SEO. There's always something to learn and this SEO Copywriting course will blow your mind.
I now know what NOT to do and what TO do, for SERPs to reach page 1 status in Google.
Bernadette is a gem of a find and I am glad she polished my idea of SEO.
The course is affordable and tutors are very real.
Jennifer was great. Her feedback was very valuable and thoughtful. She is extremely knowledgeable and shares that knowledge freely.
I enjoyed dedicating the time to writing and presenting it in a safe space where I knew I wouldn't be judged, just supported.
It has set me on the path to committing to doing the writing and not expecting it to be great straight away.
AWC staff are great, the content is well-developed, and it is well priced for the amount of help you get.
Hard to believe I have come so far in four weeks. I feel equipped to write and submit opinion pieces. The detail of feedback especially on the final piece was superb...so useful.
I was so impressed. Vivienne's sharing of her own learning/experience was so generous. Feedback was exceptional. I valued that she was able to be honest about my not-so-good assignment. That really challenged me to lift my game for the final one when her feedback was very affirming, and straight away I set about editing and improving the piece based on her comments.
I think Vivienne has a beautiful manner. She can be to-the-point but also generous and personal. I am truly grateful to her.
Superbly organised, structured. You will learn if you do the work.
The tutor was very knowledgeable and helpful with her feedback.
I enjoyed learning new techniques in writing and specific to the children's picture book writing processes. Inspired me to continue to hone my writing craft and to hopefully be published in the future. Also taught me the basics of writing again including punctuation and grammar.
Great course that is doable even if you have a busy schedule. Perfect course to know all things about writing picture books to get you motivated.
I have nothing but positive praise for Bernadette. Positive, happy, confident, relatable. Only too willing to share her knowledge, skills and experience. Clear and concise. I enjoyed her sense of humour, being genuine, her wealth of experience (I wish I had 5% of it). Bernadette's confidence was natural and completely felt that she was transferring those vibes to us albeit virtually. I felt strongly that Bernadette wanted us to do well and was building our confidence over the weeks.
I am used to writing wordy reports. Even my text messages are legendary for being as long as the Dead Sea scrolls. I always wanted to write with impact using less words. Learning how to convey an impactful message with limited words/character spaces is exactly what I needed. I feel more confident now.
When I got positive feedback re assignments - I realised I CAN DO THIS ! So, thank you. Not for the positive feedback by the way. Thank you for teaching me how to write with impact using less words (this was the aha moment).
The experience was positive and comfortable for my learning style. The course was well structured and packed with content that is current, relevant and practical. Support material for each module (templates, examples etc) is excellent and plentiful. Bonus commercial business learning videos and support material is amazing.
I love Bernadette's humor and affirmative approach in regard to feedback. She's a great example of how to speak to and treat prospects. I hope to emulate her technique in my business.
Honestly, I love the Australian accent. Silly, I know. Seriously, though, being able to work at my own pace and having the ability to download all of the course materials is a huge bonus. Getting specific feedback was also very helpful.
Copywriting is so fun! I rewrote a sales letter for a local chiropractor using the skills I learned after week 1 and landed my first potential client. This course helped my confidence to get my business up and running. I can't wait to deposit that first check!
I'm thankful I found you! As a matter of fact I already recommended AWC. I said this was a great resource for writers looking to make money. The courses are very reasonably priced and user friendly.