We asked Writing Crime Fiction tutors R.W.R. McDonald and Katherine Kovacic how they got into crime fiction in the first place.

After writing 50,000 words, a novel manuscript can be too familiar and improvements hard to imagine. What to do?

We asked Deborah Robertson to update us on her course Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book and essential nonfiction reading for writers.

Our new Sydney course leader for Writing a Novel tells us a little about her experience as a writer and a teacher.