Who: Tony Spencer-Smith When: 4 x Wednesday evenings: 30 July; 6, 13 & 20 August 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm (Please note date change from printed program: course starts one week earlier). 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 […]

Who: Steven Carroll When: Saturday 9 August 2014 10am – 4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Join Miles Franklin award-winning author Steven Carroll (Spirit of Progress) for this advanced workshop on writing fiction.  This one day intensive workshop will provide participants with an in-depth and practical insight into fiction writing. This […]

Who: Jo Case When: Saturday 16 August 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 In the writing world, memoir is the new black. Readers – and publishers – are hungry for distinctive, beautifully told true tales that give new insight into what it is to be human in a particular place, […]

Who: Nicola O’Shea When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 16, 30 August; 13, 27 September; 11, 25 October; 15, 29 November 2014, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $960; Member: $670; Conc Member: $580 Take your fiction-writing and evaluation skills to the next level in this intense but friendly critique group convened by fiction editor Nicola O’Shea. Prior […]

Who: Miles Merrill and Buddy Wakefield When: Saturday 23 August 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 With years of professional experience, two award winning poetry slam experts look at ways of using stories and poetry to get your message across: from holding a microphone to expressing vulnerability to editing your text for a live […]

Who: Beth Yahp When: 4 x Sunday mornings: 24, 31 August; 7 14 September 2014, 10am-1pm Cost: Full price: $440; Member: $310; Conc Member: $265 This course is for people who are interested in writing fiction, travel or life stories. It is for those who have a story to tell and have been wondering how […]

Who: Timothy Daly When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 30 August; 6, 13, 20 September; 11, 18, 25 October; 1 November 2014, 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 […]

Who: Mike Ladd When: Saturday 6 September 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            If you have had a poem or two published, or your first book released, and now want to take the next step, this is the course for you. In the first half of the workshop Mike will […]

Who: James Roy When: 6 x Sunday mornings 7, 14, 21 September; 12, 19, 26 October 2014, 10am-1pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360            Award-winning YA author James Roy will take you on a tour of the YA scene, answering questions such as: Where does YA fiction fit into the wider publishing […]

Who: Geoffrey Atherden When: Saturday 13 September 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            Humour has a wide spectrum and this one-day workshop on the craft of comedy will attempt to cover as much of it as possible, from gentle whimsy to raucous slapstick, from serious satire to the uncomfortable and […]

Who: Fran Molloy When: Saturday 20 September 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            How can you get your favourite magazine to publish an article you write – and pay you for it? Should you write the story first, and post it – or email it? How much can you charge? […]

Who: Andy Kissane When: 6 x Thursday evenings: 25 September, 9, 23 October, 6, 20 November, 4 December 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 A short story is a flower; a novel is a job. — Lorrie Moore In our time-deficient lives, the short story is one form that fits […]

POSTPONED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. To be notified of the new date when it becomes available please email us. Who: Matthew Condon When: Saturday 11 October 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            In this workshop, Matthew Condon will focus on the practical side of writing non-fiction and getting students to […]

Who: Gillian Polack When: Saturday 11 October 2014, 10am – 4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 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 […]

SOLD OUT – to be advised of future speculative fiction workshops please email us. Who: Isobelle Carmody When: Saturday 18 October 2014, 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 […]

LIMITED PLACES LEFT Who: Claire Scobie When: Saturday 18 October 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 With the rapid evolution in online communication, travel writing is changing, and changing fast. Today, travel writers are thinking about their brand, their image, their next blog post. Writers for print media are honing […]

Who: Alice Grundy When: Tuesday 21 October 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Are you eager for writing projects that can be finished in a sitting, that your friends and family will actually read and that will develop your craft and deal with writers’ block? Whether you want to experiment […]

Who: Danielle Wood When: Saturday 25 October 2014, 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 […]

Who: Judith Beveridge When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 28 October; 4, 11, 18, 25 November; 2 December 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 In her long poetry career Judith Beveridge has been awarded the NSW, Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and published four books of poetry. She is also […]

Who: Anna Maria Dell’oso When: Saturday 25 October 2014, 10am – 4pm Cost: $55 It can be daunting to organise and produce a major original literary work in your HSC year while faced with demands from other subjects. Whether you’re working on long or short fiction or drama-based scripts, students cannot afford to miss this […]