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Category: ACT Writers Centre

Second Round Success!

May 5, 2017
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, blog, competition, Humor, Humour, News & Blog, NYC Midnight, Short Stories, Writing

For those of you who have been hanging out to see how I fared in the next round of the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge following my success in the first heat, I am pleased to announce that my next story, Crossing the Thin Blue Line, just won through the second heat! This time the…

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Posted in ACT Writers Centre, blog, competition, Humor, Humour, News & Blog, NYC Midnight, Short Stories, Writing Tagged comedy, nycmidnight, shortstory, ShortStoryChallenge2017 2 Comments

A Belated Christmas Present – Five Fave Writing Resources

January 4, 2017
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, blog, Writing, Writing tips

If you, like me, love receiving a barrage of writing-related emails, or adding more expert writing advice to your already-can’t-quite-keep-up-with-it-all Facebook/Twitter feed, then have I got a belated Christmas gift for you. Below are five of my favourite online writing resources. Don’t dally – go sign up to their e-newsletters and social media feeds right…

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My highlights: taking inspiration from the 2016 Canberra Writers Festival

October 4, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, Aoife Clifford, blog, CAPITAL LETTERS, Chris Uhlmann, Isobelle Carmody, Mark Tedeschi, Steve Lewis, writers festivals

Another article I wrote for the ACT Writers Centre, this time about my experience at the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival over 26-28 August 2016. The 2016 Canberra Writers Festival was my first major writing event. Among all the author interviews, book launches, panel discussions, writing workshops, festival artists, pop-up bookstores, signings, corridor networking, macaron towers,…

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Posted in ACT Writers Centre, Aoife Clifford, blog, CAPITAL LETTERS, Chris Uhlmann, Isobelle Carmody, Mark Tedeschi, Steve Lewis, writers festivals Tagged amwriting, canberrawritersfestival, CWF2016, writersfestivals Leave a comment

World Building with Gillian Polack

July 21, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, blog, fantasy, Genre Fiction, Gillian Polack, science fiction, The Write Stuff, World building

Last night I spent two fabulous hours with author and academic Gillian Polack. Although our time was brief, Gillian quickly demonstrated why she is a renowned authority on the subject of world building. Here are the three lessons that most resonated with me (with my own little comments and extrapolations added): Start with the rocks…

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Posted in ACT Writers Centre, blog, fantasy, Genre Fiction, Gillian Polack, science fiction, The Write Stuff, World building Tagged actwriterscentre, amwriting, blog, GillianPolack, worldbuilding, writingtips Leave a comment

A writing class with Jack Heath

June 23, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, Jack Heath, Writing, Writing tips

I was fortunate enough to attend a brief writing class with Jack Heath last night. According to his website, Jack Heath is the author of sixteen action-packed novels for young children. From my own experience I can add that he is also a clear and engaging presenter who is well-versed in his craft. It was…

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Posted in ACT Writers Centre, Jack Heath, Writing, Writing tips Tagged amwriting, blog, jack heath, jackheath, writing, writing tips, writingtips Leave a comment

My final CAPITAL LETTERS post… Keeping the Dream Alive

May 25, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, CAPITAL LETTERS, News & Blog

My final post as blogger-in-residence for the ACT Writers Centre can be found here (or below, as usual). Thanks for coming along for the ride, and prepare for the brutal honesty… Keeping the Dream Alive I want to be a writer. For the longest time I found this difficult to admit. I guess I thought…

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Latin verbs, letters home and Stephenie Meyer: an interview with Daniel O’Malley

May 7, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, CAPITAL LETTERS, Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto, The Rook

Another one of my posts from the ACT Writers Centre’s CAPITAL LETTERS blog. The link to the article is here, or you can, as always, read the full text below:   Latin verbs, letters home and Stephenie Meyer: an interview with Daniel O’Malley I went to the same primary school as Daniel O’Malley; he was…

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Writing…with kids

April 20, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, CAPITAL LETTERS, Humor, Humour, language, News & Blog, Writing, Writing tips

My fifth CAPITAL YARNS blog post is up. This time the topic is how to raise children while also trying to find time to write. If you have kids, this should all sound horribly familiar. If you don’t have kids, stop reading now because this may put you off entirely… Original post is here: actwritersblog.com/2016/04/19/writing-with-kids/….

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Posted in ACT Writers Centre, CAPITAL LETTERS, Humor, Humour, language, News & Blog, Writing, Writing tips Tagged humor, humour, language, outnumbered, Parenting, toy story, writing, writing tips 1 Comment

Capital Yarns – an interview with Sean Costello

April 6, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, CAPITAL LETTERS, News & Blog, Short Stories, Writing

My next CAPITAL LETTERS blog entry is an interview with Capital Yarns author Sean Costello. The original post can be found here, or, as usual, you can read it all below!   I was in Harry Hartog’s in Woden the other day when I came across something unusual on the counter. Neatly folded in a…

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Setting your fiction in your hometown

March 24, 2016
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| Categories: ACT Writers Centre, CAPITAL LETTERS, News & Blog, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing tips

Ever thought about setting your fiction in the place you live? My latest blog post on the ACT Writers Centre website (actwritersblog.com/2016/03/23/setting-your-fiction-in-canberra/) looks into this very issue, weighing up the pros and cons. It is about my hometown – Australia’s capital of Canberra – but most of the concepts apply wherever you live. In case…

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