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 Prizes will be awarded for unpublished works in three categories: short story, flash story, and poetry.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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Craft in the real world : rethinking fiction writing and workshopping
Salesses, Matthew
Paper Book
The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing - including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability - Matthew Salesses asks...
How fiction works /
Wood, James, 1965-
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 write a mystery : a handbook from Mystery Writers of America /
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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). ...
Mastering the process : from idea to novel /
George, Elizabeth, 1949-
Paper Book
As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful--and prolific--novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing...
Writing down the bones : [online electronic book] freeing the writer within.
Goldberg, Natalie.
Ebook
For more than thirty 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--...

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