Pagan Harrison-Brown has been a continuing asset to the Charlie contributor team! Here, you can find out more about her… Growing up I don’t really remember much of my childhood, but I was born and raised in Wagga Wagga. We then moved to...
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by Margaret Aitken As someone who’s been writing poetry for five years, I create poetry to relax and unload all of my negative feelings or joyfully express all of my positive emotions. It’s a great creative outlet that doesn’t require a ton of...
As a novelist myself, I frequently engage in what I like to call the Writer’s Exaggerated Exclamation of Anguish: “I have no time to write!” Being a university student as well as working part-time means I’ve spent years devising strategies on how to...
Do you ever find yourself just staring at the title of your report for ten minutes, not knowing where to start? Or you’re half-way through the first paragraph of an essay and your mind completely blanks, leaving you with nothing logical to...
Make your bed every morning. This doesn’t mean you have to completely change and wash your sheets Every. Single. Day. But you’ll sleep and feel better if you shake out your doona, straighten your pillows, and throw your cushions back on your bed...
Over the past three weeks, we’ve looked at a few of the things I’d suggest that my first-year self work on if I had the opportunity to sit her down for a stern talking to… When I think back to my first year of distance education, I...
by Emily Minter No matter what degree you are studying, at some point you will probably have to write an essay… Now this is a concept that fills many people’s heart with fear. You’ve probably had other students tell you how boring and hard...
