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Natasha Lester

Natasha is an award-winning author of historical fiction. Her latest novel is The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard, a gripping homage to women and fashion. Her other recent novels include The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre, a fascinating tale that braids espionage and fashion in World War II Europe, and

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Bernadette Schwerdt

Bernadette has trained over 9,000 people in the art of writing words that sell. She was a senior account director and copywriter for global advertising agency Young & Rubicam Advertising and worked on campaigns for clients such as Apple, Amex, Optus and Colgate. In 2001, she founded the Australian School

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Candice Fox

Candice is an award-winning crime and thriller writer. Her latest novel is The Murder Inn, her eighth book in collaboration with bestselling author James Patterson. Her other recent novels include Fire With Fire and The Chase, an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Nevada desert, which was the winner of the Best Crime Book

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Julia Kuris

Julia works with self-published authors to create beautiful covers that sell! She is the founder of Sydney based design and branding studio designerbility.com.au. Julia has designed covers for some of Australia’s leading authors and entrepreneurs as well as designing covers for Finch Publishing, an independent publishing house based in Sydney.

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Allison Tait

Allison is an internationally published bestselling author of adventure novels for children. Also known as A.L. Tait, Allison’s latest book is The Fire Star: A Maven & Reeve Mystery published in 2020 by Penguin Australia. Allison’s previous series is The Ateban Cipher, which comprises The Book of Secrets and The

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L.A. Larkin

L.A. crime-thrillers have won her fans all over the world. Described as a superb ‘chiller thriller’ writer by Marie Claire magazine, and praised by the king of crime, Lee Child, Louisa writes stories with lots of plot twists and characters that surprise. She also writes humorous dog-detective mysteries as Louisa

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Deb Doyle

Deb is a consultant who runs three businesses: Editorial Training Services, Living Proof – Book Editing, and Draw On. She specialises in publication editing as well as in training company and government employees to improve their skills in grammar, punctuation, writing, editing, proofreading and plain English. She’s conducted courses for

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Carli Ratcliff

Carli is an award-winning editor, journalist, digital content specialist and UX writer. She edits and writes webpages, apps, mobile, voice and chatbots. Carli consults to a number of organisations on UX writing strategy. She established and has led the UX writing team at Qantas for many years. She now also

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Kate Forsyth

Dr Kate is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent books are Psykhe, a new telling of the classic myth, Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairy Tales, a collection of lost fairy tales from around the world, and The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of ‘The Minotaur in the Labyrinth’ myth,

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David Leser

David is an award-winning feature writer who has worked for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, HQ, The Bulletin, Good Weekend, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Vanity Fair, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the author of Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing (Allen & Unwin) and has also

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Brigitte Stanton on how courses led to her dream coming true

Brigitte Stanton was working as a mental health nurse, a job that could be stressful at times. She had been wanting to write for a few years as a creative outlet, but didn’t know where to start. After discovering the Australian Writers’ Centre, Brigitte went on to complete several courses that fit around her lifestyle and has now published her debut picture book. Brigitte’s picture book Wanda Needs a Haircut is out now with Tiny Seed Publishing (an imprint of Starfish Bay Publishing).

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How Sandhya Parappukkaran followed her creative curiosity to become a published picture book author

Courses taken at AWC: 
Writing Picture Books
When Sandhya Parappukkaran quit her food technology job to pursue her creative dreams, she originally turned to arts and crafts. But while reading with her son, Sandhya’s childhood love of books was rekindled. After completing the Writing Picture Books course, her debut picture book The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name has been published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing.

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COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Girl Falling’ by Hayley Scrivenor

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Blue Mountains, this compelling story explores the complex relationship between two lifelong friends as their lives take unexpected turns that will keep you turning the pages. Here’s the blurb: Why

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