Graduate Success Stories – Hard News Journalism
Everson Luhanga was awarded a bursary in 2010 to study Hard News Journalism at SA Writers’ College (www.sawriterscollege.co.za). Everson thrived on the course and went on to get two articles published...
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Christo Valentyn completed the Magazine Journalism Course in 2007. Apart from selling articles to big titles like Cosmopolitan and Longevity, Christo has carved a niche for himself as a successful...
View ArticleGraduate Success Story: Travel Writing and Writing for the Web Course
Angela Pearse completed the Travel Writing Course and the Writing for the Web Course at NZ Writers’ College (www.nzwriterscollege.co.nz) in 2009 and 2010 respectively. One of our top students at the...
View ArticleGraduate Success Story: Hard News Journalism
Ashley Stander completed the Hard News Journalism Course in 2010. She went on to have articles published in her local paper. An Interview with...
View ArticleKaren Taylor-Vermaak’s Success Story: Magazine Journalism
Karen Taylor-Vermaak completed her Magazine Journalism Course at SA Writers College (www.sawriterscollege.co.za) in February 2010. She has since become a regular contributor for Fitness Magazine....
View ArticleGraduate Success Story – Stephanie Attwood
Stephanie Attwood entered, and won her first short story competition in 1986 (South Island Writers’ Association) with her University Entrance exam story ‘The Break.’ She didn’t write again until...
View ArticleHelen Yuretich wins Heartland Short Story Competition
Helen Yuretich, a recent graduate of the Short Story Writing Course at NZ Writers’ College (www.nzwriterscollege.co.nz), has won the Heartland 1000 Short Story Competition. The competition, organised...
View ArticleThe Winners of the 2011 SA Writers’ College Short Story Competition
The results are out! Read the winning entries, the judges’ comments and see if your story is mentioned in our Honourable Mention List at www.sawriterscollege.co.za or follow this link....
View ArticleMagazine Journalism Success Story: Madi Hanekom
Madi Hanekom completed the Magazine Journalism Course in November 2010. Madi is a stellar example of a student who has thrown herself full throttle into writing and selling stories. What writing...
View ArticleNZWC Student WINS ‘Her Magazine’ Short Story Competition
Her Magazine in New Zealand runs a regular short story competition. This month one of our Short Story Course students – Andrea Stitson – won the competition. Her story will be published in the next...
View ArticleMagazine Journalism Success Story: Jo Hedges
Jo Hedges completed the Magazine Journalism Course in June this year. Her future in journalism shows huge potential, with four of her articles already published. Well done Jo! What writing...
View ArticleNovel Writing Course Success – Mark Scheepers
Mark Scheepers received the Mavis Bleazard Bursary (sponsored by her daughter Hazel Carlstein) and completed the Write a Novel Course at The Writers’ College earlier this year. We are delighted to hear...
View ArticleAn interview with Andy Evans
Andy Evans decided to get more serious about his writing this year, and enrolled in two NZ Writers’ College courses, namely, The Basics of Creative Writing and Literary Short and Flash Fiction. Read...
View ArticleMagazine Journalism Success: Angelique Noll
Angelique Noll completed the Basics of Creative Writing Course as well as the Magazine Journalism Course in 2011 at The Writers’ College. Here’s what she has been up to since then…. 1. What writing...
View ArticleShort Story Writing Course Success: Chenél Pieterse-Boyle
Chenél Pieterse-Boyle completed the Short Story Writing Course at SA Writers’ College. Her writing successes since then have been nothing short of inspirational. 1. What writing successes have you...
View ArticleTravel writer Rosanne Turner about her writing life on a Thai island
Rosanne Turner completed the Travel Writing Course at the Writers’ College in 2008. Dozens of published travel articles later, she finds herself an expert on Koh Samui, her island home in the Gulf of...
View ArticleTravel Writing Course Success: Ann Huston
Ann Huston completed the Travel Writing Course at NZ Writers’ College in August 2012. Since then, she had her travel piece on Woodville published in the Manawatu Standard. Her article ‘You can lead a...
View ArticleMagazine Journalism Student Success Story: Janet Hart
Janet Hart from Nelson, New Zealand completed the Magazine Journalism Course at NZ Writers’ College in 2012. After 28 years of school teaching, we find out how catching the writing bug has changed her...
View ArticleGraduate Success Story: Short Story Writing
Trish Nichsolson completed the Short Story Writing Course at NZ Writers College in 2010. We tracked her progress in the literary world. An Interview with Trish Nicholson What writing successes...
View ArticleAnd now we wait…. An author’s first experience of getting published
– BY HILARY MURRAY For those not familiar with my journey, I recently had my debut novel published (recently, as in ten days ago!). The build-up to the big day was a major learning curve for someone...
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