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 […]

This course is sold out. Please email us your name and phone number to go on the wait list. Who: Emily Maguire When: 8 x Wednesday evenings: 24 February; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 March; 6, 13 April, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost per Phase: Full Price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Level: Students should be prepared […]

Who: Emily Maguire When: 8 x Wednesday evenings: 8, 15, 22, 29 June; 6, 13, 20, 27 July, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost per Phase: 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. This course is now sold out. Please email us to […]

Who: Frances Watts When: Saturday 5 March, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All This course is now sold out. Please email the Centre to add your name to the waiting list. As any children’s author knows, the limited word count does not mean that writing picture books is easy. […]

Who: George Merryman When: Saturday 18 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate There are limited places in this course. Please call to enrol on (02) 9555 9757. Dialogue should be the easiest part of writing, shouldn’t it? We all talk. Every day. All the time. We’re experts in […]

Who: Barry Divola When: Saturday 12 March, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner to Intermediate Ah, the life of the freelance writer. Up at the crack of noon, pants optional and working only when you damn well feel like it. Sounds too good to be true? That could be […]

 SOLD OUT. Call the Centre on (02) 9555 9757 to go on the waitlist. Who: Aleesah Darlison When: Sunday 26 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Adults writing for children in the genres of pictures books, chapter books, middle grade and young adult fiction. Suitable for beginning, aspiring and […]

Only two spots remaining – call the Centre on (02) 9555 9757 to enrol. Who: Jesse Blackadder When: Sunday 26 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: General level Spanning the dawn of human history to recent memory, historical fiction is a rich and popular genre, encompassing human experience across […]

The NSW Writers’ Centre is proud to unveil the third incarnation of its Playwriting Festival, curated by writer for stage, page, screen and sound Hilary Bell (Wolf Lullaby, The Splinter). The 2016 festival is for playwrights looking to broaden their horizons, whether through skilling-up, diversifying their craft, or networking. The program draws together practitioners from […]

Friday 20 May, 10am – 4.30pm Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW Forest for the Trees is a one-day seminar looking at the current state of publishing for Australian writers.  It brings together writers, publishers, and industry representatives to discuss what is happening in 2016. Spoken word poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke (Foreign Soil) […]

Who: Felicity Castagna When: 17 July through 30 November, 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 stack of drafts sitting in a drawer. You know they could be better, but you’re not quite sure how. Sound like you? […]

Who: Sue Woolfe When: Saturday 23 July, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginners and intermediate writers This course is now sold out. Please email us to put your name on the waiting list. We are all wired for creativity, but too often as adults we let our creativity fade.  […]

This course is now sold out. Please email us your name and phone number and we will add you to the waiting list. Who: Lee Powell When: Tuesday 26 July, 6:30-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: Scrivener beginners Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on […]

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 Holden When: Saturday 30 July, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All In a big life, where is the story? Everyone has not just one story, but […]

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 Dapin When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August; 7 September, 6:30-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Level: All Learn how to write journalism, memoir and […]

Who: Nicola O’Shea When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 13, 27 August; 10, 24 September; 8, 22 October; 5, 19 November, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $960; Member: $670; Conc Member: $580 Level: Beginner/Intermediate This course is now sold out. Please email us to put your name on the waiting list. Take your fiction-writing and evaluation skills […]

Who: Roz Hopkins and guests speakers including guest speakers including Abigail Nathan, Anna Maguire, Bronwyn Mehan, Joel Naoum, Emma Noble, Adina West, Patrick Lenton and Pat Naoum When: Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 August, 10am-4pm Full price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210 Level: Intermediate Want to take control of your publishing? Interested in ebooks? […]