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Australian Literary Festivals

Locality: Landsborough, Queensland

Phone: +61 417 351 717

Address: 19 Caloundra St 4550 Landsborough, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.austlitfest.com

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23.01.2022 Lots of interesting items and bargains on the website. www.sunnycoastmarketplace.com.au

17.01.2022 Only 3 days left to save money on this writing escape. Discounts end Monday night. Bookings are rolling in and places are limited, so don't miss out. http://www.austlitfest.com/cq-beachside-writers-retreat.html

17.01.2022 We had an exciting day of workshops at Emerald High School on Wednesday. 85 kids, most keen and great writers. Thanks to Aleesah Darlison, Pam Rushby, and Allison Paterson for helping to make it a huge success. We are looking forward to receiving stories from the participants to go in their annual anthology. We were so busy we forgot to take photos. A much smaller group at our Open Day in Rockhampton yesterday but some very good and keen writers. We did manage to get a photo of that one.

14.01.2022 We've had enquiries about workshops so have decided to take them online for now and give a free assessment of your work-in-progress. Go to our workshop page to see what is coming up. The first one is on the one thing you must get right. DEVELOPING OUTSTANDING AND MEMORABLE CHARACTERS - With a free assessment of your work-in-progress. Character is the most important element in all stories, from picture books to memoirs and adult books. If your readers don't relate to or care about your character after the first page, they will stop reading. http://www.gondorwriterscentre.com/workshops.html

14.01.2022 Check out this exciting new presenter for our 2020 Festival! Popular author and entertainer Andy Jones is joining us for the CQ Festival week. Andy has many exciting presentations that all fit in with the school curriculum. Two of his most popular are featured below. Andy Jones is an ABC and Harper Collins bestselling children’s author and entertainer. He tours schools, writers’ festivals, libraries and events all over Australia. The ‘Hot Jokes for Cool Kids’ series, that has sold over 500,000 copies (with 1.5 million copies sold across all his titles), has made him a firm favourite with kids and parents alike. Andy is a trained primary school teacher and has utilised this invaluable education to create his shows, CD’s and books. Learn more here. http://www.austlitfest.com/aust-lit-fest-news

13.01.2022 Christmas at Woodfordia.

13.01.2022 Don't miss out on the FREE and valuable evaluation of the characters in your story as a part of the CHARACTER workshop, online on ZOOM, on September 6th. The last date to get your first 10 pages in is Saturday August 29th at 5 pm. Email evaluations are now available. More information on the website. http://www.gondorwriterscentre.com/developing-characters.ht

12.01.2022 Have you planned your escape yet? Improve your chances of becoming a published author by getting feedback and workshops from successful authors who have been published many times. Send us your writing sample for a FREE appraisal. Then join us for a Central Queensland retreat to a beautiful, tranquil beachside setting surrounded by tropical bushland and spend a weekend working on improving your writing. ... Don't miss your chance to save. 15% discount finishes at the end of April! Book your place today and send us your submission. NEW SECURE PAYMENT OPTIONS AND A NEW PROGRAM ON THE WEBSITE. http://www.austlitfest.com/cq-beachside-writers-retreat-boo

08.01.2022 Writing tip: We are told and tell others that you pick up more problems in your writing by reading it out loud, but sometimes that doesn't help as we tend to re...ad what we know should be there. I have discovered a better way. I downloaded Office 365 and found that under the Review tag, Word now has a Read Aloud feature. When you click on that, a voice reads the words to you. It reads exactly what is there, so you hear what is missing, and what has been left in by mistake when you edited etc. Listening to the story this way, you also hear when a sentence is clunky and needs changing. You can stop and start it as you edit. It is a great tool. I know that there are read aloud apps that you can add to your computer but this one is right there and all you have to do is select it. I recommend it highly.

06.01.2022 Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus scare we have cancelled the August CQ Literary Festival. I hope all our wonderful schools in the district remain virus free. See you next year.

01.01.2022 I hope your new year brings you everything you desire.