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 […]

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 […]