Over on the National Young Writers’ Group Facebook page we’re sharing a bit about ourselves and our NYWM goals. Head on over and share your plan for this month. There are already heaps of different goals being discussed, but a running trend seems to be submitting work to various places. Pitching your work well is […]
Sometimes the best thing you can do as a writer is put down your pen and partake in a literary event, be it an author talk, book club or other writing adventure. Here are some excellent ideas to get you started. In Melbourne, Paper Trail Tours have two events coming up soon. A literary walking […]
For those of us not lucky enough to make it to Alice Spring’s Eye of the Storm Writers’ Festival you can listen or watch some of the panels via ABC’s Big Ideas. Definitely check out Hungry Eyes: Women, Sex and Power with Kate Holden, Krissy Kneen, Laura Jean McKay and Anna Krien, journalist and writer […]
Name: Jake Dennis Age: 22 State: WA What is your NYWM goal? During NYWM I would like to finish working on the 4 poems that I’ve been workshopping as part of Australia Poetry’s online poetry workshopping course with Brook Emery. I would also like to send out some poems to poetry journals and competitions and […]
Monday! Day three of National Young Writers’ Month. Do Mondays motivate you to start fresh? Yesterday was the final day of the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne, so we expect it will be a somewhat subdued day for a lot of Victorian writers as they take a deep breath and adjust to post-festival life. Today […]
Day two of National Young Writers’ Month. What does it have in store for you this year? A new goal, or a return to one that you couldn’t quite manage this year. This post is an oldie but a goodie, designed to help you ascertain what exactly your goal should be and how you can […]
Welcome to National Young Writers’ Month! We’re excited to be on day one of our thirty day writing adventure. Each day we’ll be updating the blog with daily writing inspiration, tips, advice, profiles and other magic. If there is anything in particular you’d like to see us feature please drop us a line. Do you […]
It’s almost upon us. National Young Writers’ Month takes place during the month of June, as always, and that is mere days away. This year we look forward to providing another thirty days of online support and motivation for your writing projects. Don’t forget to visit the National Young Writers’ Facebook group to tap into […]
Congratulations to all of the Award Winners for 2012! Couldn’t make it? You can watch a video of the event here. The 2012 Express Media Award Winners Best New Project or Work by a Young Person or for Young People by State or Territory National Winner: Twitch! by the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre VIC – Truth, by Slow Clap […]
Abreast by Danielle Binks (22) Lucy found the photo, and looked at her mum’s breasts for the first time. It had been nestled between the pages of Cloudstreet, a white-edged Polaroid of mum sprawled in bed amid a tumble of twisted sheets. Her face is beaming beatific with the haze of morning pinking her cheeks; her […]
