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  • Events
  • Meet our authors
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  • CONTACT US
  • Order your book here
  • Meet the team
  • Challenge 8 roundup
  • Make a donation
  • Week 4 Challenge 9 poems
  • poems wk 5 Challenge 9

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Oh Boy did we spill the beans!

A great bunch of writers got together

A great bunch of writers got together

A great bunch of writers got together

A great bunch of writers got together

A great bunch of writers got together

To have fun and write

A great bunch of writers got together

Lucy Elliott & Patricia Griffen won Harry Hartog book prizes for their writing

Lucy Elliott & Patricia Griffen won Harry Hartog book prizes for their writing

Lucy Elliott & Patricia Griffen won Harry Hartog book prizes for their writing

Lucy Elliott & Patricia Griffen won Harry Hartog book prizes for their writing

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Lucy Elliott & Patricia Griffen won Harry Hartog book prizes for their writing

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Lucy Elliott & Patricia Griffen won Harry Hartog book prizes for their writing

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Fantastic writing workshop today

Migrant and refugee stories from the Northern Beaches of Sydney

Julie Howard presented a workshop for writers who will tell the settlement stories of  Northern Beaches refugees.  It will be published later this year.


Would you like to be one of our writers?  Or do you have a story to tell about what it was like to arrive in Australia from Germany or Russia or Indonesia or ?  If so we want to hear from you. 

Contact us

What is the writing question you have always wanted to ask?

A terrific zoom where 3 amazing writers answered your questions

What did you ask? What advice did they give?  Their answers could change your writing practice. 

Hear Roger talk about our latest writing challenge.

Get the creative juices flowing and send your responses to us by 11 March.  Keep checking our website to see whose stories have been published. 

Send your writing

Meet our zoom Q & A Panel

Paula Goodyer

Paula Goodyer is a Walkley Award winning journalist and now freelance health writer. Twice winner of the Dietitians Association of Australia Excellence in Nutrition Journalism Award. Author of three non-fiction books - Kids and Drugs (Allen & Unwin 1998), Bodyguard (ABC Books, 2003) and Fit and Firm Forever (Random House, 2009). Her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian House & Garden Magazine, The Healthy Food Guide, Diabetic Living, Sunday Life, Elle and Cleo.are.

Steven Kay

Steven Kay is a founder member of Sheffield Authors in the UK, and is working on his 6th novel. He started writing full time after deciding it was preferable to being a Health and Safety inspector. Steve, who admits to a penchant for historical fiction but ‘without kings or queens and bodices, ripped or otherwise’, established his own ‘very small publishing empire' - 1889 - when he indie-published his first book The Evergreen in red and white, about a Victorian Romani footballer.

Michelle Worthington

Michelle Worthington,  is an award-winning children's author, screenwriter and international guest speaker on the power of story. A full-time writer based in Brisbane, Michelle credits her three sons for giving her an endless source of inspiration, as well as her wrinkles. Michelle is dedicated to encouraging a strong love of reading and writing in young children and enjoys working with charities that support the vision of empowering youth through education. As a mentor and editor, she helps aspiring authors find pathways to publication and enjoys working as part of a team in projects that are purposeful, innovative and inspirational. You can find out more about her awards, speaker profile and books at www.michelleworthington.com

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Come join us at an action packed workshop where you will meet other authors, hear their stories and take a writing challenge or two.

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Who was at the Spill the Beans Allambie Heights launch?

Vivien Wilson author of 'Ursula' finds her story 'Basil' in the latest 'Beans' book.

    Beans @ La Boca Palms Cafe

    Find out how to join the Beans and have your challenge stories or poems printed online and in book format.

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

    • Copyright remains with contributors at all times. 
    • By entering a challenge contributors agree that  stories or poems may be published online; in SPILL THE BEANS books or in promotional  materials.
    • While Spill the Beans values the author's authentic voice it retains the right to make editorial changes where needed.