Who: Emily Maguire When: 8 x Tuesday evenings: 19, 26 September; 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 7, 14 November 2017, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Level: Students should be prepared to come to the first class with a specific work-in-progress or idea for a novel. Phase Three: Nip, tuck, primp […]

Who: Claire Corbett When: Saturday 14 October 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All levels and types of writer will benefit, including academic writers and journalists In this energising, fun and interactive course, you’ll learn how to create a daily journal for capturing ideas, enhancing productivity, and prioritising tasks. […]

Who: AS Patric When: Saturday 14 October, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Committed beginners and early to established This advanced workshop will take short story writers through an intensive study of the craft and techniques essential for writing unique and vital stories. Explore character development, narrative function, voice and […]

Who: Anna Westbrook When: Saturday 21 October 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Early and emerging writers Learn the practical elements of writing a historical fiction novel with novelist Anna Westbrook. We will discuss the process of turning an idea into a plot, and explore effectove research methods. In […]

Who: Pamela Hewitt When: Saturday 21 October 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Emerging and established writers who have completed or are near completion of the final draft of a work of fiction or creative non-fiction, including memoir or family history. You’ve written your story or memoir and you’re […]

Who: Vanessa Berry When: Saturday 4 November 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All Places are full of stories, and every story has its place. Whether place is setting or subject, the skillful writing of place enriches your stories and connection with your readers. Landscape or cityscape, familiar or […]

Who: George Catsi When: Saturday 4 November 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate You’ve written your work and now you’re being asked to read it out loud – or you hope to soon.  Any public reading is a promotional moment that can convert a listener, if you read […]

Who: Jacqueline Harvey When: 5 x Wednesday evenings: 8, 15, 22, 29 November and 6 December 2017, 6:30-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $500; Member: $350; Conc Member: $300 Level: All Writing for children is big business. Despite the oft forecast demise of reading, demand for quality children’s books is strong and there has been significant growth […]

Who: Luke Ryan When:  Saturday 11 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Comic writing is an art unto itself, but one sorely missing from contemporary discussions of how we write. This workshop will cover the how, what and why of comic writing – from misdirection, to analogy, to […]

Who: Pamela Cook When: Saturday 11 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Most useful for emerging writers, but more established writers will also benefit ‘Tension on every page’ is the secret ingredient that keeps readers coming back for more, according to literary agent Donald Maass. In this interactive workshop […]

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 […]