Gillian Polack will be teaching Grammar Basics and the Perils of Punctuation on Saturday 11 July. We caught up with her for some insights into the world of editing, grammar and punctuation. What are the common mistakes that you come across in people’s writing? Apostrophes are the most common. For some reason, many people worry […]

‘I come and go across borders drawn between men and women.’ Imagine if your parents told you ‘You are no longer a girl. You are now a boy,’ and you were forced to simply change your identity. Bacha posh is an old, unspoken Afghan tradition that allows families without a son to transform their daughters […]

Robert Fairhead reviews Bapo by Nicholas Jose.

Susan McKerihan spent 20 years as the Plain English editor in one of Australia’s largest firms, PwC. She has worked with consultants in all disciplines, industries and sectors, helping them write clear and succinct technical and advisory reports. In the lead-up to her workshop we picked her brain about writing clearly and concisely. Can you […]

Oliver Mol, the Sydney-based writer best known for his passion for digital writing, has been kicking around and getting published in everything under the sun for the last few years. I recall picking up a copy of Voiceworks once and saying to myself, ‘It’s that bloody Mol guy again!’ – but in a good way. […]

You’ve spent months, years or even decades labouring over your manuscript, and you finally feel the time is right to have your work published. Submitting your work to a publisher or an agent is a big decision – not one you want to take lightly. And you don’t want to fall at the first hurdle […]

Congratulations to the following Writers’ Centre members, who have recently achieved writing success. Most have published fiction in the last twelve months, varying from historical fiction to short-stories and YA fiction, just to name a few, whilst others are celebrating the news that they’ve been picked up by a publisher. Congratulations to you all and […]

David Blissett has won multiple awards for short fiction, including the Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards 2012, the Bundaberg Writers Short Story Award 2010, Hawkesbury River Writers Short Story Competition 2010 and the FAWNS Super Short Story Competition 2011. His work was featured in the Award Winning Australian Writing Anthology in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He […]

If you’ve spent much time within the contemporary business world, you’ve probably come across sentences like this one: ‘To minimise the amount of time devoted to consideration of operational issues and to performance monitoring, and thereby permit the maximum amount of time to be devoted to the Board’s other key role, consideration of strategic and […]