Who: Frances Watts When: Saturday 28 March 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All As any children’s author knows, the limited word count does not mean that writing picture books is easy. In the words of Mem Fox: ‘Writing a picture book is like writing War and Peace in […]

Title: Creative Groove Who: Walter Mason When: 6 x Sunday mornings: 13, 20 March; 3, 10, 17 April; 1 May, 10am—1pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 A course in re-igniting your creative spark and learning to share your gifts with the world. The time has come for you to start making […]

Who: Dianne Blacklock with guest speakers Ber Carrol and Anna Valdinger When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 30 March; 6, 13, 20, 27 April; 4 May, 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: Emmett Stinson with Kate Mayes of HarperCollins, literary agent Jo Butler, book publicist Brendan Fredericks, publisher David Henley, publisher David Musgrave, book designer Nada Backovic, authors Dianne Blacklock and Bruce McCabe, and more When: Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 April, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210 Level: All What do […]

Who: John Pickrell When: Saturday 9 April, 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 reporting […]

Who: Sophie Masson When: Saturday 9 April, 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 workshop, […]

Who: Anna Maguire and Charlotte Harper When: 4 x Tuesday evenings: 26 April; 3, 10, 17 May, 6pm-9pm Cost: Full Price: $440; Member: $310; Conc Member: $265 Note: ASA members can book for the NSW Writers’ Centre member price. Simply quote your ASA membership number on the payment page. Level: This course is for beginners, […]

Who: Marianne de Pierres When: Saturday 23 July, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All This course has one space left. Please call us on 95559757 to book. Award-winning science fiction author, Marianne de Pierres, will conduct a comprehensive workshop on writing speculative fiction. Participants will learn how to amass the […]

Who: Mark O’Flynn*         When: Saturday 30 April, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: This workshop is aimed at advanced level poets looking for tools and techniques to refine their verse. With the guidance of gently paced, carefully structured exercises, discover the possibilities of action in poetry. Action can be […]

Who: Katherine Howell When: Sunday 1 May, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All Limited places left: call to book 9555 9757 Ideal for writers who are working on or planning a crime novel, this one day workshop teaches the key elements of crime fiction—character, setting, plot, and suspense—and how to […]

Who: Cate Kennedy When: Saturday 7 May, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110  Level: All levels, but should have had some experience in at least trying to write fiction This course is now sold out. Please email us with your name and phone number to go on the wait list.  Everyone […]

Who: Will Kostakis When: 2 x Saturday mornings: 7 & 14 May, 10am-1pm Cost: Full Price: $220; Member: $155; Conc Member: $130           Level: Beginner to Intermediate This course is now sold out. Please email us to put your name on the waiting list. There are two things a writer wants: to be published, and to […]

Who: Pamela Hewitt When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 10, 17, 24, 31 May; 7, 14 June, 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 series of six workshops presents the essentials of professional editing. Using […]

Who: Alice Pung When: Saturday 28 May, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All This course is now sold out. Please email us to put your name on the waiting list. Writing from life is tricky – how do you transform a personal narrative (your own, or someone else’s) into […]

Who: Denise Tart, Jenny Crocker and Jane Richards When: cancelled Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: For all writers at any stage interested in collaborative or group fiction writing. Not every talented writer is suited to a life of solitary scribe, yet literary collaborations are still rare. One exception is the […]

Who: Hilary Bell When: Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May, 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 for […]

Who: Susan McKerihan When: Saturday 4 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Any writer who missed out on learning grammar at school and feels at a disadvantage when trying to improve their writing skills. Also those who did learn grammar school, but have forgotten the finer details and would […]

Who: With Benjamin Law When: Saturday 4 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Intermediate If you’ve read Truman Capote’s brutal In Cold Blood, Hunter S. Thompson’s mind-bending Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Susan Orlean’s slow seduction by the natural world in The Orchid Thief or Chloe Hooper’s tangled […]

Who: Laurel Cohn When: Thursday 16 June, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: Beginner to intermediate. Writers often moan and groan about blurbs and synopses, but there’s no escape – if you want to pursue publication of any sort, you can’t avoid it. The key to a successful pitch is […]

Who: Laurel Cohn When: Saturday 18 June, 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 There are limited places in this course. Please call to […]