Australia’s leading First Nations writers’ festival comes to Sydney for the first time, with a satellite event to be hosted by Writing NSW on Saturday 19 March 2022.

Fill your February with these wonderful writing events. There’s a range of online and in person events to keep you going, including film festivals, online chats, weekends away and a good showing for live theatre!

“It’s our job as authors to ensure that we use every word, every technique at our disposal to tell our story in the most skilful, entertaining way.”

“For me writing poetry has always been a fairly personal act, and never been about editing for opacity and making a work easy-to-understand, but sometimes there are ideas and themes that I definitely want a reader to understand.”

“In the midst of a quiet exercise, as we all had our heads bowed over our journals, something happened and the card table at the centre shook, causing the spheres to clink together in a quick little song of supernatural promise. The ghosts of Rozelle were saying goodbye.”

“I have always been open to feedback, even if it hurts my creative pride. I know that somewhere in it is either a ‘gem’ I can use, or it can trigger my inner critique to emerge and see the manuscript with a different lens.”

“Constructive criticism invites the person whose work you are reading to consider a few other ways of approaching their work, or a sentence or a character.”

While my time in the once notorious Callan Park as a medical student was unforgettable, I have had very different experiences there as a budding writer.

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