Each month we aim to bring you a question which tackles some of the Big Questions in the world of writing. This month, we’re trying to show you why the answer to the question above is an emphatic Yes. (Unless you really, really don’t want to.) Having an online presence can take a few forms. […]

Most people have an interesting life story or family history and many toy with the idea of writing it – someday. Initially there are more questions than answers. Where to start? How to tell the story? What to include or leave out? What period should it cover? It can be overwhelming. Amanda Hampson, author of […]

Editor Laurel Cohn shares her thoughts on the art of revision. Successful authors often note that the art of a good book lies in the revision process. Getting your story down (whether fiction or non-fiction) is a great achievement, but the real work begins with rewriting. And rewriting. And more rewriting. I don’t mean to […]

Each month we aim to bring you a question which tackles some of the Big Questions in the world of writing. This month, we’re focusing on how to get published. This is the number one question we get asked, and like all Big Questions, it doesn’t have an easy answer. Hopefully we can point you […]

Penny Morrison runs the writers’ group Picture This, which meets regularly at the Centre. We asked Penny to share her writers’ group experience: Writing is a social occupation. Or it can be, if you’re part of a critique group like mine. It’s true that writing does involve some amount of sitting alone at my computer, […]

Successful freelance writer Barry Divola shares with us three things that he wishes someone had told him before he became a writer: 1. I wish I knew when I left high school that I could actually work as a full-time writer for a living. Then I mightn’t have spent years at university getting a BA […]

As you can imagine, people who work at the Writers’ Centre are voracious readers. As we lead in to Christmas and New Year, where you hopefully will be able to grab some reading time in a hammock somewhere, we thought it was a good chance to reflect on what we’ve read that’s stayed with us […]

The Board would like to announce that Linda Funnell has been elected Chair of the New South Wales Writers’ Centre. Linda has extensive experience in the publishing industry and has worked as a publisher, editor and literary agent. From 2000 to 2010 she was a publisher with HarperCollins and published award-winning fiction and non-fiction as […]

We caught up with Mary Moody recently and spoke with her about how she writes, and the balancing act that comes with writing memoir. In The Long Hot Summer you describe the experience of sequestering yourself in a hotel to write, which sounded quite necessary at the time. Does your writing practice differ according to […]