SOLD OUT! Email us to go on the waitlist. Who: Beth Yahp When: 6 x Sunday mornings: 16, 23, 30 August; 6, 20, 27 September, 10am-1pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 This course is for people who are interested in writing fiction, travel or life stories. It is for those who […]

Who: Lisa Jacobson When: Saturday 22 August, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” Robert Frost Creating a good poem is like making a fine table. It requires the right tools and imagination to craft a […]

Who: Maxine Beneba Clarke When: Saturday 22 August, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 This course is aimed at assisting participants to write original, engaging, and technically proficient short fiction – covering facets such as narrative voice, structure, characterisation and plot development. While the morning session will be theoretical, unpacking and […]

Who: Sulari Gentill When: Saturday 29 August, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Writing fiction often begins with a single shining idea. Historical fiction is about setting that idea in a time and place that has existed and been recorded. The historical novelist’s art is that of weaving a new story […]

With: Sian Prior When: Sunday 30 August, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 You want to write. You have some great ideas and a strong desire to be published (or published again). You just need to get it all down. But why can it be so damned hard to move from […]

Who: Tony Spencer-Smith When: 4 x Wednesday evenings: 2, 9, 16, 23 September, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $440; Member: $310; Conc Member: $265 Editing and proofreading are a vital part of the writing journey. A first draft is only the start of a process that turns raw copy into polished gems ready for the reader. […]

Who: David Henley, Benython Oldfield, Steve Wimmer, Jaki Arthur and Chris Allen When: Saturday 5 September, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 It’s never been easy to be a writer but now it seems that there is more to do than ever, from self promotion to reading contracts, negotiating pay, managing […]

SOLD OUT Who: Aleesah Darlison When: Saturday 5 September, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Do you want to write for children? Have you written a picture book manuscript you think might be ready to take to the next step? Do you need advice about publishers? Come to this workshop and […]

SOLD OUT Who:Mark Tredinnick When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 8, 15, 22, 29 September and 6, 13 October, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Poems—such small things, like birds and bombs and epiphanies—are a lot bigger than they seem; they go off! They make more noise (not to mention mess and […]

Who: Luke Ryan When: Saturday 12 September, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Comic writing is an art unto itself, but one sorely missing from contemporary discussions of how we write. This workshop will cover the how, what and why of comic writing – from misdirection, to analogy, to the rule […]

SOLD OUT Who: Jo Case When: Saturday 19 September, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180, Member: $125, Conc Member: $110 Writing (and reading) memoir has never been more popular. But how do you tell your story and hold a reader’s attention for the space of a book, or an essay? What’s unique about your experience, and […]

Who: Shirin Yim Bridges When: Tuesday 22 September, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Are you ready to crack the American book market? Or are you close enough to want to visualise the day you do? Whether your book is fiction, non-fiction, how-to, self-help, memoir, poetry, or an anthology, this seminar […]

Who: With Roz Hopkins, Anna Maguire, Bronwyn Mehan, Garry Trinh, Matt Stanton and Abigail Newton When: Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October, 10am-4pm Full price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210 Want to take control of your publishing? Interested in ebooks? Unsure about Print-on-demand? This two-day seminar covers the nuts and bolts of doing your […]

Who: Timothy Daly When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 14, 21, 28 November; 5 December, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 These eight intensive sessions are designed to teach you the techniques for writing full-length plays and selling them to the national and international theatre markets. Each […]

Who: Nick Parsons When: 6 x Thursday evenings: 15, 22, 29 October; 5, 12, 19 November, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Writing for performance, be it stage or screen, big or small, is the most technically demanding literary form. Your story is experienced in real time. There is no pause […]

Who: Claire Scobie When: Saturday 24 October, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 With the evolution in online communication, travel writers are thinking about their brand, their image, their next blog post. Writers for print media are honing new skills to stand out among the virtual crowd. Meanwhile, bloggers are learning […]

Who: Danielle Wood When: Saturday 24 October, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 The short story has been variously described as a photograph (where the novel is a film), as an affair (where the novel is a marriage) and as a wayward younger brother (where the novel is, presumably, much more […]

Who: Anna Maria Dell’oso When: Saturday 31 October, 10am – 4pm Cost: $55 This one-day seminar is an experienced writer’s practical overview of the entire HSC Major Work journey and what you will need to tackle it. Based solidly on writing craft, the seminar is designed to assist students to explore the concepts that will […]

Sold out – please email us to go on the waitlist. Who: Davina Bell           When: Saturday 31 October, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 What makes a great children’s book? How do I turn my idea into a story? How do I submit my work – and where should I send […]

Who: Jan Cornall When: 4 x Sundays mornings: 1, 8, 15, 22 November, 10am-1pm Cost: Full Price: $440; Member: $310; Conc Member: $265 Do you have a lifetime of stories to tell, but don’t know where to start? Learn how to turn memories into memoir by accessing your authentic writer’s voice and bringing to the […]