Spotlight On: Kaitlyn Plyley

  Kaitlyn is a writer, performer, and broadcaster living in Brisbane. Last year she presented her debut solo show Not Much To Tell You at Perth’s Fringe World and the Queensland Poetry Festival. She hosts Just A Spoonful, the podcast that is young and fully sick.         How old are you? 28 […]

Day 4: Your Backyard and Beyond

Day 4 of NYWM sees us checking out what’s happening in our own backyard and beyond, as well as checking out writing groups and book clubs.

Spotlight On: Alex Griffin

Want to know what it’s like to be a young writer in Western Australia? We chat to writer and editor Alex Griffin for Day 2 of National Young Writers’ Month.

NYWM: Day 2

We’re all writers here, but sometimes we hit that wall, that infamous barricade – writer’s block. In tonight’s live-streamed event, Start Your Story, Sian Campbell shows us what to do when you’ve been staring at that blank page a little too long. Editor-in-Chief of Scum Magazine – an online repository of fiction, memoir, rants and […]

NYWM: Day 30

  The end of June is actually upon us! First and foremost, we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride and found all of our posts invaluable and helpful to your blossoming writing careers. For the last post, we thought it might be a great idea to give you a whole bunch of awesome resources to submit […]

NYWM: Day 29

It’s two days before the end of June, and the end of National Young Writers Month! Today’s post is for all the worry warts out there, especially to those worrying that won’t be able to meet their NYWM deadlines. You have to bear in mind that goals are a motivational technique in itself – if […]

NYWM: Day 28

We’ve discussed planning the novel and how to get that amazing first sentence to get the ball rolling, but what happens when you’re near the end but you don’t know how to end it? Like the beginning of your written piece, the ending is just as difficult to write. You have to be able to […]