More students are published!

I was thrilled to receive a couple of emails this week from former students ...

Anh Dang only finished the course Feature Writing for Magazines and Newspapers on Monday night (four days ago) and the next day she emailed me with the great news that her first article is going to be published by The Sydney Morning Herald. Great work Anh!

Ray O'Brien completed the Creative Writing course back in 2005 and it was hear to him that's he's still writing. Ray had a small piece of creative nonfiction in the latest edition of online publication (or Ezine) Flashquake http://www.flashquake.org/

His story, The Green Coat, can be seen if you follow the link to Nonfiction on the left.

While I'm a big fan of traditional approaches to writing, I'm also a big fan of online avenues because the readership potential is huge.

Ray wrote: "I found Flashquake on a very useful site called Duotrope http://www.duotrope.com/ that is a database of over 1600 markets for short fiction, poetry and novels. This is just the boost I needed to get serious about completing my (longer) short stories and getting them published."

I read some of Ray's work during the creative writing course and I know he's not going to have any problems finding an audience for his pieces. Great work Ray.