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 […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Mark O’Flynn When: Saturday 1 April 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Emerging/general Ever get that sinking feeling when a poem isn’t working? Does it […]

Who: Toni Jordan When: Saturday 1 April 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All The bad news: bad dialogue stands out. It distracts from your story. It’s ungainly and ugly. If you write bad dialogue, even if everything else is great, good readers will think you’re not a good […]

Who: Anna Maguire When: Thursday 6 April 2017, 6:30–9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: All Crowdfunding has become an accepted way of potentially raising funds for small publishers and self-publishers. According to Books+Publishing, Australian crowdfunded publishing projects raised $1.2 million in 2014. Although we see many crowdfunding success stories in […]

Who: Jan Cornall When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 26 April; 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 May 2017, 6:30–9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Level: All Creativity is important in every art form – the challenge for writers is how to access your creative energy and bring it to the page. Whether […]

Who: Bianca Nogrady When: Saturday 29 April 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: This workshop will best suit emerging and established writers looking to earn a living as a freelancer. Work when you want, where you want, for whom you want, and how you want: the description of a […]

Who: Will Kostakis When: 2 x Saturday mornings: 29 April & 6 May 2017 10am-1pm Cost: Full Price: $220; Member: $155; Conc Member: $130           Level: Beginner to Intermediate **To complete this course, please check that you are confident and able to complete the following technical tasks. If you are unsure, contact the Centre on 9555 […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Martin Langford When: 26 February through 5 July 2017, online Cost: Full Price: $285; Member: $235; Conc Member: $225 Level: Emerging writers You’ve written some poems – maybe you’ve even got a stack […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Kerryn Goldsworthy When: 12 March through 17 July 2017, online Cost: Full Price: $285; Member: $235; Conc Member: $225 Level: Emerging writers You’ve written some short stories – maybe you’ve even got a […]

Who: Dianne Blacklock, with guest speakers Anna Valdinger and Joel Naoum When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May; 6 June 2017, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Level: Intermediate What is Women’s Fiction anyway? Is it fiction written solely by women, or fiction written solely for women? […]

Who: Patrick Lenton When: Thursday 4 May 2017, 6:30-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: emerging and established writers who are new to digital marketing, with a particular focus on digital, self published and genre authors In the current publishing climate, knowledge of how to market and grow an online author […]

Who: Pamela Hewitt When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 10, 17, 24, 31 May; 7, 14 June 2017, 6:30pm–9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc. Member: $360 Level: Intermediate. This course assumes a basic knowledge of word processing and a high level of literacy. This six-week course presents the essentials of professional editing. Using practical […]

Who: Laurel Cohn When: Saturday 13 May 2017, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner to intermediate. This course assumes you have a substantial piece of writing, or have a plan for a piece of writing that you need help structuring. A story is like a creature. It can have […]

Who: Kate J Armstrong When: Saturday 13 May 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Early/emerging writers Participants will learn how to turn their travel adventures into engaging pieces of prose. This workshop will immerse participants in the world of travel writing, exploring the tips and tricks that travel writers […]

Who: Laurel Cohn When: Monday 15 May 2017, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: Beginner to intermediate. In our fast-paced world of communications dominated by headlines and key words, it’s crucial for you to understand how to pitch your project to others as concisely as possible. You may be required […]

Who: Lisa Shanahan When: Saturday 3 June 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner So where do fantastic ideas for picture books come from? And what really makes a picture book work? Join award-winning writer Lisa Shanahan in this one-day course for beginning writers and learn what it takes […]

Who: Emmett Stinson & guest speakers When: Saturday 3 June and Sunday 4 June 2017, 10am–4pm Cost: Full price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210 Level: All What do you need to know about publishing a book and when do you need to know it? What do agents, publishers, editors, marketers and designers bring to […]