YA Round Up: Issue 4

by Nadia King | Apr 18, 2018 | Australian publishers, Award Winning, Book review, Debut Authors, LGBTQI, New releases, Round-up, small presses, Uncategorized, Young Adult

Welcome to the fourth round up of young adult fiction for the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge. Read Up is an initiative of the Stella Prize and the Victorian Government. It’s aimed at young people aged 15-24 who fall outside the education system and...

Guest Post: Writing Outside The Square by Cindy Davies

by Cindy Davies | Dec 12, 2017 | Debut Authors, Guest author, Historical fiction, New releases, small presses

My novel The Afghan Wife was launched on 25 November 2017 by Odyssey Books of Canberra. Odyssey is owned and operated by Michelle Lovi who accepted it for publication in February of the same year. It is set against the background of the Islamic revolution in Iran. In...

Tuesday Teaser: New Release by small press Odyssey Books. Esme’s Wish by Elizabeth Foster

by Lisa Fleetwood | Dec 5, 2017 | Australian publishers, Debut Authors, small presses, Speculative, Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Tuesday Teaser, Young Adult - speculative fiction

I was excited to receive a copy of Esme’s Wish by Elizabeth Foster recently. Her debut novel, launched in Sydney on November 25th, is a young adult fantasy set in the world of Aeolia, a water world where people can breathe underwater and magic ripples throughout...

Inventing Alice: A Story of Collaborative Success

by Jane Richards | Nov 10, 2017 | Contemporary fiction, Debut Authors, General Fiction, Guest author

“I read the manuscript at the weekend and I couldn’t put it down. We would like to publish.” Whenever we relay the contents of this email from the world’s biggest publisher, Random House, in one of our author talks, a buzz of excitement goes through the room. After...

Focus on Debut Authors: Rachel Leary

by TheresaSmithWrites | Aug 11, 2017 | Debut Authors, Historical fiction, Interview, Literary, New releases

Today we welcome Rachel Leary to the Australian Women Writers Challenge blog. Rachel grew up in Tasmania then moved to Melbourne in 2003 having enrolled in the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. Rachel has had a number of short stories and essays...

Focus on Debut Authors: Emily Brewin

by TheresaSmithWrites | Jun 30, 2017 | Debut Authors, General Fiction, Historical fiction, Interview, New releases

Today we welcome Emily Brewin to the Australian Women Writers Challenge for an in-depth look at her debut novel, Hello, Goodbye. About Hello, Goodbye: It’s 1968 and free-thinking country girl May Callaghan’s world is turned upside down when she finds out...