Wyndham Writing Awards: Get inspired!

Explore our collection of resources and get inspired for the Wyndham Writing Awards. Prizes will be awarded for unpublished works in three categories: short story, flash story, and poetry. Shortlisted entries will be published in the Wyndham Writing Awards Anthology 2025.

For more information and entries visit: www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/writingawards

Updated April 28, 2025
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Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers
Akam, Simon.
Paper Book
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way.
Creative Writing for Dummies
Hamand, Maggie.
Paper Book
Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best Do you have an idea that you're burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel...
First you write a sentence : the elements of reading, writing...and life
Moran, Joe
Paper Book
"Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help." --The New York Times Book Review An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences
How fiction works
Wood, James
Paper Book
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers inHow Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster...
How to be a writer : who smashes deadlines, crushes editors and lives in a solid gold hovercraft
Birmingham, John
Paper Book
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the...
How to write a mystery : a handbook from Mystery Writers of America
Child, Lee
Paper Book
From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries--from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers--"this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again" (Booklist, starred review). ...
How to write everything
Quantick, David
Paper Book
How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screen-writing, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels....
In Writing: Conversations On Inspiration, Perspiration And Creative Desperation
Crisell, Hattie.
Paper Book
Based on Crisell's popular podcast of the same name, here is an inspiring and fascinating glimpse into the creative process - with some of our best-loved contemporary writers
The novel project : a step-by-step guide to your novel, memoir or biography
Simsion, Graeme C.
Paper Book
This book is about another approach, based on established theories of creativity and design - and on the experience of authors who have adopted a more structured and reliable process. It could have been called What They Don t Teach You in Writing School because, rather than focusing on prose, it...
Solutions for Writers: Practical Lessons On Craft By The Legendary Editor Of James Baldwin, W.H. Auden, And Many More
Stein, Sol.
Paper Book
Practical, instantly usable techniques and advice for writers of fiction and non-fiction from master editor Sol Stein
Writing down the bones : freeing the writer within
Goldberg, Natalie.
Paper Book
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice-...
Yes! no! but wait...! : the one thing you need to know to write a novel
Lott, Tim
Ebook

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