Who: Helen O’Neill When: Tuesday 14 November, 6:30-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: All Research brings writing to life. Whatever the genre, from fiction to non-fiction, research is one of the most powerful tools any author can have at their disposal – and those who use it well create mesmerizing […]

Who: Hilary Bell and guest speaker Matthew Martin When: Saturday 25 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Early/emerging, appropriate for writers and illustrators, and individuals as well as collaborative partnerships Do you have a beautiful picture book in you trying to find its way onto the page and into […]

Who: Inga Simpson When: Saturday 25 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All This full-day interactive workshop with Inga Simpson explores a range of techniques for making your sentences more beautiful. Through a combination of tuition, examples and practical exercises you’ll learn how to pare back sentences to their […]

Who: Anthony Macris When: Saturday 2 December 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Emerging/Established Point of view is one of the most important techniques in fiction writing, and one of the most neglected. Get it right from the start, and you’ll be able to construct narratives where voice, character […]

Who: Kate Forsyth When: Saturday 2 December 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All levels All writers get blocked sometimes. Yet it’s those writers who learn how to blast through their blockage and keep on writing that manage to produce work, year after year, and so build themselves a […]

Who: Felicity Castagna NSW Writers’ Centre: Sunday 29 October 2017, 10am-4pm Casula Powerhouse: Sunday 5 November 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: $55* *The course at Casula is available for a subsidised price to students from eligible Western Sydney schools. For details, please call (02) 9555 9757. This one-day course will take students far beyond the fundamentals of […]

This event is now SOLD OUT. Limited tickets will be available for sale on the day, but space in the first session cannot be guaranteed. Get up close and personal with some of Australia’s finest spec fic authors this July, as Cat Sparks directs her second Speculative Fiction Festival. Explore short fiction, genre-bending, and the […]

Who: John Pickrell When: Saturday 18 February 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginners John Pickrell is an author, award-winning science writer and the Editor of Australian Geographic magazine. In this one-day workshop he will talk about the craft of science journalism, guide you through approaches to researching and […]

Email workshops@nswwc.org.au to go the waitlist. Who: Lee Powell When: Tuesday 31 January, 6:30-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: Scrivener beginners, particularly those who are new to Scrivener Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long documents. It gives you […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who:Sue Woolfe When: Sunday 5 February 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All Many people think they’re not born creative, despite the intimations that whisper otherwise. However, new […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Tegan Bennett Daylight When: Sunday 5 February 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Emerging and established writers will benefit most from this course. Experience in finishing a […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Kate Montague and Belinda Lopez When: Saturday 11 February 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Suited for emerging and established writers wanting to gain practical skills to […]

Who: Phil Spencer When: Saturday 11 February 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Any level, as long as you have a desire to perform your stories aloud Performance storytelling is growing in popularity, with many opportunities to perform stories live. Join acclaimed performer and storyteller Phil Spencer and sharpen […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Linda Funnell When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 22 February; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March 2017, 6.30pm – 9.30pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Level: Intermediate/advanced writers who have […]

Who: Gillian Polack When: Saturday 4 March 2017, 10am – 4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Learn how you can use the building blocks of grammar and punctuation to create writing that says what you need it to say. Gillian Polack will teach you how to polish your prose, […]

Who: Sophie Masson When: Saturday 4 March 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: This workshop is mainly pitched at early and emerging writers interested in or currently writing YA, but also may interest established writers considering moving into YA from other areas. In this exciting and practical one day […]

SOLD OUT. Email us to go on the waitlist. Who: Anne Gracie When: Saturday 11 March 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All Romance is character-driven genre fiction. Forget about “the formula” — there’s no such thing. Like all popular fiction, it must delight, surprise and entertain readers.  Romance […]

Who: Emma Noble When: Saturday 11 March 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125, Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginning/Intermediate Self-publishing seems like it has never been more viable. Your options for bringing a book to market are myriad, easy to access and cheaper than ever. But what happens next? How do you make your […]

Who: Terry Dowling When: Sunday 19 March 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Do you dream of the impossible? Do you want to create worlds that live and breathe on the page, that readers will never forget? Then get ready to immerse your imagination in the genres of […]

Who: Hilary Bell When: Sunday 26 March and 2 April, 2017 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210 Level: Beginner and intermediate aspiring playwrights. As we will be starting from scratch, it is preferable to come prepared to write a new play rather than work on a pre-existing idea. Do you write […]