Before Deborah Abela joins us to teach Writing for Kids in October, she tells us about her popular Max Remy series, how working in television can teach you about being a writer, and her work with Room to Read. The Max Remy series now consists of ten books – a busy Superspy indeed! Did you […]

“When he was gone, I felt like we were set adrift.  The world was so big and scary, and there was no-one there to protect us.” This line from ‘The Cradle Arms of Strangers’, the fifth story in this collection of ten by Western Sydney-based writer Jane Skelton, neatly encapsulates some of the recurring themes […]

Dr Robyn Ferrell is the author of several books of philosophy and creative writing and is Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. In the lead-up to her The Art of Truth course, we pick her brain about her own writing and the writers that she […]

Barry Divola loves short stories so much that he wants you to write them. That’s why he’s running a course called Jumpstart, to get your creativity flowing and give your story writing a kick in the pants. The author of Nineteen Seventysomething (Affirm Press) recently won the Margaret River Short Story Competition with his story […]

The chronicler of family stories begins the writing and publishing journey with many years of research. I have found that research of many diverse records has been important for writing a memoir of my own childhood: some of the most interesting and useful are school records. I have been able to trace some of the […]

Author Barry Oakley’s memoir Mugshots takes the reader on a journey through his life, from his childhood at the Christian Brothers in 1938 to uncertain career paths that aren’t quiet right for him. But among the jobs he lands and doesn’t enjoy or prosper at (although it must be said, the range of job positions […]

Twenty Forty-Eight is marketed as a satire on George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (although it can be understood even without having read the latter).  It loosely follows Orwell’s plot but in a different setting:  a futuristic world controlled by global corporations where consumerism is the dominant driving force.  The population is heavily subjected to surveillance, […]

This is an extract from a piece that originally appeared in the Emerging Writers’ Festival book.   My friend, Chris, insists that when I write about sex I am never writing about sex. This seems ridiculous. I have spent over a year and a half writing a short true story about sex every day. 511 […]

Join host George Catsi at Books Kinokuniya for a program launch with a difference, as NSW Writers’ Centre tutors are pulled out of their comfort zones and asked to pitch a book idea outside their genre. Our social media expert Zena Shapter will be pitching a social media fairytale called ‘Jack and the Interstalk’. Join […]