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 […]

Who: Dianne Blacklock When: Saturday 14 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Dianne Blacklock is the author of nine novels of contemporary women’s fiction. Her books encompass a broad range of life experiences – marriage, divorce, family, work and…love. But what self-respecting novel doesn’t have a love story embedded somewhere […]

Who: Miles Merrill When: Saturday 14 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Writers don’t always think ahead to potentially performing their work when they’re going through the difficult writing process. But knowing how to perform and speak your words is essential, both in terms of marketing and professional development, but […]

Who: Benjamin Law* When: Saturday 5 December, 10am–4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Navigating the ocean between facts and feeling, feature stories combine journalism’s passion for truth and analysis with creative writing’s appreciation of people and place. The goal? To reel your audience in, and keep them reading until the end. […]

Who: Caleb Lewis When: Saturday 21 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Great stories help us to know ourselves better by offering insights into the minds of others. In books we read what characters think; cinema observes how they behave; while at the theatre we listen to what they say. […]

Who: Candice Fox When: Saturday 28 November, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Writing crime fiction isn’t for the faint of heart – you’ve got to understand how to write compellingly as the hunter and the hunted, and having a strong stomach goes a long way too. A sound knowledge of […]

Who: Anthony Macris When: Saturday 5 December 2015, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180, Member: $125, Conc Member: $110 This one-day workshop, with one of Australia’s leading teachers of creative writing, Dr Anthony Macris, is designed for intermediate to advanced fiction writers who wish to develop their skills in how to structure either a short story […]

Who: Dr Emily Booth When: Saturday 5 September, 10am – 4pm Cost: Full price: $245, ASA & NSWWC member: $160 (Price includes lunch and refreshments.) This course is presented by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA).  As a result of a partnership between the ASA and NSW Writers’ Centre, NSWWC members are eligible for the […]

Speculative fiction is the literature of unbound imagination, an umbrella term broadly encompassing stories that feature fantastical, supernatural, or futuristic elements. Tales set in, at or on the fringe, teasing the peripheries of WHAT IF? Join us on Saturday July 18th to explore a literary field that seeks to go beyond the farthest reaches of […]

New places now available! Who: Emily Maguire When: Phase three. 8 x Wednesday evenings: 30 September; 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 11, 18 November, 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 weeks each, acclaimed author Emily Maguire will […]

Saturday 7 November 2015 The NSW Writers’ Centre is proud to announce its second Creative Non-Fiction Festival, curated by journalist, TV screenwriter, author and Good Weekend columnist Benjamin Law. Our 2016 festival is for aspiring and practising writers, looking to hone their non-fiction skills in memoir and essay, criticism, profile and biography, science and medicine, […]