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Faber Writing Academy

Allen & Unwin, Australia

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Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin is a creative writing school offering a range of courses from one-day workshops to longer intensives run by the leading figures in contemporary publishing. Faber Academy was established by iconic London publishing house Faber and Faber to provide high quality, practical creative writing courses that draw participants into the epicentre of the book publishing world and courses have been running in Sydney and Melbourne since 2010.

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Backseat Highway

Carly Smith Fiction

In Virileville, the most important event of any girl’s existence is her graduation. On this day her fate is decided. If she is perfectly suited for the career designated to her, she lives. If not, she is disposed of immediately. One imperfect, unn...

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How to Avoid a Rip

Brie Evans Young Adult

'How to Avoid a Rip' is a YA novel that deals with issues of domestic violence between a sixteen-year-old girl Kat and her surfer boyfriend, Carter. The novel is set in a picturesque beachside suburb on the NSW Central Coast. Kat’s popular best fr...

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Rosie

Rebecca Poulson Fiction

Rosie is a fourteen-year-old who lives with her father Leo and seven-year-old brother Oliver on a farm in NSW. When she was seven her mother Kali disappeared from Rosie’s life. Rosie understands over the years that she has a deeper magical unders...

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Introduction

Paddy O'Reilly, Toni Jordan and Kathryn Heyman Fiction

This is the introduction to Faber Writing Academy's Writing a Novel Anthology 2017. "Borges once said, ‘A writer should always be judged by his or her best pages.’ We commend to you the best pages of the 2017 Faber Academy students. We hope you w...

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Love in the Poppy Field

Sonja Felletti Fiction

Lena is an Australian artist living in London. A phone call from a familiar village voice sends her on an unexpected trip to the ‘old country’ in the Balkans. Len-ka, your father is dying, baba Stojka said. Relieved to get away from her London lif...

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Song of the Islands

Daria Kill Fiction

At the age of thirty-one, Esther ‘Tibby’ Downward had resigned herself to a life of spinsterhood. The year was 1933 and Australia was in the grips of the Great Depression, but family affluence allowed her one last adventure before accepting a mund...

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Moonlight Head

T A Getzler Fiction

Dr Robert Bryant escapes his disreputable family in Oxfordshire to create a respectable existence in Victoria in the 1860s, but chafes at its limitations. He wants to cement his respectability in the upper echelons of Melbourne society. Bryant sei...

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Shifting Sands

Anna James Fantasy Fiction

Unaware that she possesses the gift to move souls between Life and Death, horse gypsy Myawynn desires nothing more than to train and trade her family’s horses. When an ancient sect attacks her family and friends Myawynn escapes and seeks help from...

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The DNA Test

Margaret Rice Fiction

When DNA tests reveal Sydney banker Cec Raymond’s Indigenous heritage, he uncovers a family secret. Eager to find more about his Wiradjuri ancestors, Cec’s search for the truth takes him on a road into an Australia he didn’t know. What Cec finds ...

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Bright Echoes

Jan Murray Fiction

It’s 1992. Advertising executive and screenwriter Cynthia Smart is in Los Angeles to pitch her film. Instead, she finds herself caught up in dusk-to-dawn curfews and riots. L.A. is burning. She’s already miserable enough and sets out to drown her ...

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Fine Tuning

Tracey Lennon Fiction

Kat Green’s juggling a design business, the loss of her husband’s job and her son Axel’s senior year. Kat sees her son’s future at university, Axel sees it at the School of Rock. As Axel’s bands gains airplay, his grades plummet. Kat’s failing bus...

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Passing

Noè Harsel Fiction

Six months before her son’s bar mitzvah, Chika Frank discovers she is not Jewish. Letters she unearths, from a stranger to her elderly mother, cast doubt on everything she thought she knew about herself. The fallout shatters Chika’s marriage, caus...

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