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 […]

Sold Out! Email us to go on our waitlist. Who: Emily Maguire When: Phase two: 8 x Wednesday evenings: 27 May; 3, 10 , 17, 24 June; 1, 8, 15 July 2015, 6:30pm-9:30pm. Full Price: $880, Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Make 2015 the year you finally write that book. Over three phases of eight […]

THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT When: Thursday 21 May, 10am – 4.30pm Where: 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.  The seminar brings together writers, publishers, marketers, and booksellers to discuss what is happening in 2015. Forest […]

Who: Gillian Polack When: Saturday 11 July, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Learn how you can use the building blocks of grammar and punctuation to create writing that says what you need it to say. Dr Gillian Polack will teach you how to polish your prose, use punctuation […]

Who: Mark Mordue When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 22, 29 July; 5, 12, 19, 26 August, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600, Member: $420, Concession Member: $360 Sometimes referred to as ‘the literature of reality’ and ‘literary non-fiction’, creative non-fiction combines the narrative techniques of fiction and the expressive energy of poetry, with the research demands […]

Who: Karen Andrews           When: Saturday 25 July, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Do you want to take your blog to a new level? This course will help you plan your content, make the most of social media, and understand the importance of networking and building community. Learn the key elements […]

Who: Kirsten Tranter When: Saturday 25 July, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Living, breathing characters are the key to successful fiction. The best plots emerge from characters’ actions and decisions. Without compelling, believable characters it can be hard to make readers care what happens next in your story. In this […]

Who: Jaki Arthur When: Thursday 30 July, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 In this seminar, experienced book publicist Jaki Arthur, presents a motivating and inspiring workshop all about book publicity – how it works, why it works, what it can do for you and how to do it! You will […]

Who: Nicola O’Shea When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 1, 15, 29 August; 12, 26 September; 10, 24 October; 14 November, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $960; Member: $670; Conc Member: $580 There are limited places left in this course. To book, please call (02) 9555 9757. Take your fiction-writing and evaluation skills to the next level […]

Who: Isobelle Carmody When: Saturday 1 August, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 The journey is one of the strongest fantasy cliches. Stories often begin with someone setting out on a journey, which will end by the end of the story. The structure of the story is formed by the journey […]

Who: Neil James When: Saturday 1 August, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 For more than 2,000 years, writers have wrestled with the problem of persuasion. What makes one text compelling and another pedestrian? Neil James draws from fields as diverse as classical rhetoric, plain language and cognitive psychology to explore […]