Who: Mark Tredinnick When: Saturday 7 March 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All Everyone who wants to write will need to get comfortable with the inner life of sentences. If you’re going to write, you’re going to need to get to grips with grammar. What really goes on […]

Who: Amruta Slee and guests When: Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 March 2015, 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 the process? […]

Who: Stephanie Clifford-Smith When: Saturday 21 March 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110           Level: All How do you translate what you’ve just put in your mouth into words people will want to read? How do you engage your reader, getting them to share your response to the experience? This workshop […]

Who: Laurel Cohn When: Saturday 28 March 2015, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All A story is like a creature. It can have a multitude of limbs and unusual features, but it needs to be able to stand on its own and deliver its creator’s intent. In order to […]

SOLD OUT – EMAIL US TO GO ON THE WAITLIST. Who: Felicity Castagna When: Saturday 18 April 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All The expression ‘a sense of place’ is a critical catchphrase that often defies clear understanding.  As readers we know when a writer has created a […]

Who: Terry Dowling When: Saturday 18 April 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Want to write out of this world? Do you dream of the impossible? Then get ready to immerse your imagination in the genres of science fiction and fantasy with one of Australia’s most awarded and […]

Who: Walter Mason When: 6 x Sunday mornings: 19, 26 April; 3, 10, 17, 31 May 2015, 10am—1pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Level: All 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 your […]

Who: Jacqueline Harvey When: 5 x Tuesday evenings: 21, 28 April; 5, 12, 26 May 2015, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $500; Member: $350; Conc Member: $300 Level: All Writing for children is big business.  Despite the doom and gloom about the state of the publishing industry, the children’s market remains robust and growing.  Children are […]

SOLD OUT. Please call us on 9555 9757 to go on the waitlist. Who:Pamela Hewitt When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 28 April; 5, 12, 19, 26 May; 2 June 2015, 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 […]

SOLD OUT – Call us on 9555 9757 to go on the waitlist. Who:Will Kostakis When: 2 x Saturday mornings: 2 & 9 May 2015, 10:30am-1:30pm Cost: Full Price: $220; Member: $155; Conc Member: $130           Level: Beginner There are two things a writer wants: to be published, and to be read. Thanks to advances in […]

Who: Kate Lilley When: Saturday 2 May 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All This masterclass is designed for anyone interested in the exciting experimental possibilities of writing, reading and hearing lyric poetry. Why has lyric been the dominant poetic mode for so long? What are its defining characteristics […]

Who: Vanessa Bates When: Sunday 3 May 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            Level: All This full day writing for theatre workshop sees participants work with playwright Vanessa Bates to create, write and develop their own monologue. The workshop will look generally at writing for theatre but hone in on […]

Who: Matthew Condon When: Sunday 3 May 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110           Level: All In this workshop, Matthew Condon will focus on the practical side of writing non-fiction and getting students to be enthused about tackling their manuscripts. He will explain the very basic elements of structure, points of […]

Who: Barry Maitland When: Saturday 13 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All Would you like to write gripping fiction, with vivid characters, strong and ingenious story lines and a powerful sense of place? Crime novels have all of these, and are among the most popular forms of fiction […]

Sold Out – email us to go on the waitlist. Who: Inga Simpson When: Saturday 13 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110           Level: All When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. —  John Muir This workshop is ideal […]

Who: Linda Nix When: 6 x Saturday afternoons: 13, 20, 27 June; 4, 11, 25 July, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Level: All This course is now sold out. Please email us put your name on the waiting list. Is your manuscript ready for publication? How do you know if […]

Who: Susan McKerihan When: Saturday 20 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: All The objective of Plain English is to ensure that a document’s intended reader understands its messages quickly and accurately. What is a ‘reader-focused document’, and how it is achieved? What specific tools and devices can help […]

SOLD OUT – email us to go on the waitlist. Who: Kerryn Goldsworthy When: Saturday 20 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate A short story is like a halfway point between a poem and a novel. This is true not only in terms of its length, but also […]

Who: George Merryman When: Saturday 27 June, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Dialogue should be the easiest part of writing, shouldn’t it? We all talk. Every day. All the time. We’re experts in talking, experts in dialogue. And yet writing truthful dialogue is one of the biggest challenges […]

Who: Sarah Allen When: Thursday 12 February 2015, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Level: All In this session with the author’s secret weapon in book marketing, Sarah Allen, you’ll learn the absolute fundamentals for any author wanting to understand WHY you benefit from dedicating time to a social strategy, WHAT […]