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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Tag Archives: queensland writers centre
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This is Kelly Link
Got a call from QWC yesterday to say that they’d had some places
This is me
open up in the Kelly Link workshop … huzzah! Thank you to the people who dropped out!
You never stop
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Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #4: A A O’Callaghan
Amanda O’Callaghan was born in Brisbane and lived in the southern suburbs for the first two decades of her life. After living in England and Ireland for many years (and being an advertising executive in one incarnation), she returned to her home city, where she writes and teaches.
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Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #3: Christine Bongers
Christine Bongers has worked as a broadcast journalist on the ABC, and in commercial television and radio, in Brisbane and London. She has also written and directed two environmental television documentaries, and run her own media consultancy.
Christine’s first attempt at writing fiction was short-listed for the Varuna Manuscript
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Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #2: Linda Brucesmith
Linda Brucesmith is a Brisbane-based writer and public relations consultant.
Her public relations business and clients have provided her with unique perspectives on tourism, hospitality, food, horticulture, medicine, mining, dance, academia, media and the internet. She has worked as a magazine and newspaper journalist in Sydney, Melbourne, the
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Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #1: Charlotte Nash-Stewart
Up and comer Charlotte Nash-Stewart is a new writer to look out for; her work is lyrical, disturbing and constantly challenging (in a good way). By day she is the Word Engineer, by night she’s the fiction stalker.
1. I first knew I was a
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The Shallows Drive-by: Favel Parrett
Favel Parrett, quite apart from possessing an awesome writerly name, is also an awesome writer. And a lovely person. Favel was a participant in one of the first QWC-Hachette Manuscript Development Programs in 2008 and the very beautiful Past the Shallows is the novel that got her into the
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Manuscript Development Programs – now open
Queensland Writers Centre’s 2 manuscript development programs are open for applications:
The QWC/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program is open for emerging writers of young adult fiction, fiction, and non-fiction. Applications close Thursday 21 July 2011.
The Allen & Unwin Manuscript Development Program is for emerging writers of children’s fiction. Applications
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Lee Battersby and QWC go together like peanut butter and jelly …
… or ramalamadingdong … or something …
Hey, look over there! An online writing course taught by Lee Battersby via the Australian Writer’s Marketplace Online Learning Centre, under the auspices of QWC. More specifically, Sci-fi short story writing over 6 weeks at a cost of $150. Can’t get fairer than that.
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Writers on Rafts!!
This is QWC’s fundraising project to assist after the floods that have just rolled across Queensland with all the subtley of a rhino on heat.
Enter Writers on Rafts to win fabulous prizes donated by more than 150 Australian authors, including Kate Morton, Morris Gleitzman, Di Morrissey,
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Donate! Because you know you want to …
… QWC staff will be wearing their PJs to work on Stress Down Day to help raise funds for LifeLine.
Yes, that’s right, PJs.
You know you want to help out … even if it’s $5.00.
Go here to donate. Your karma will thank you.
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