COMPLETE COURSE NO LONGER AVAILABLE: Phase One is booked out, but there are places available in Phases Two and Three. Who: Emily Maguire and Linda Funnell Complete Course – Three Phases (additional 10% discount): Full Price: $2375; Member: $1660; Conc Member: $1430 For details on each phase, or to book separately, click on Phase One, […]

SOLD OUT: Please email to join the waiting list. Who: Emily Maguire When: 8 x Wednesday evenings: 19, 26 Feb; 5, 12, 19, 26 March; 2, 9 April 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Phase One: Writing the bones This phase is all about getting the bare bones of your […]

Sold out -please  email to join the waiting list. Who: Emily Maguire When: 8 x Wednesday evenings: 28 May; 4, 11, 18, 25 June; 9, 16, 23 July 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Phase Two: Muscles, guts, flesh and blood Phase two is all about putting flesh on the […]

SOLD OUT – to be notified first about Year of the Novel in 2015 please email us. Who: Linda Funnell When: Phase Three: 8 x Wednesday evenings: 8, 15, 22, 29 Oct; 5, 12, 19, 26 Nov 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Phase Three: Nip, tuck, primp and preen. […]

SOLD OUT – please email to join the waiting list. Who: Frances Watts When: Saturday 22 February 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 As any children’s author knows, the limited word count does not mean that writing picture books is easy. In the words of Mem Fox: ‘Writing a picture […]

Who: Catherine Deveny When: Saturday 22 February 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 So you think you’re funny. You do. And you know what? You are. Spend the day writing, thinking, talking and getting insider tips and shortcuts. Catherine Deveny will help you to fine tune your voice, your characters, […]

Who: Timothy Daly           When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March; 12, 26 April; 3 May 2014, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 The emphasis in this comprehensive course is on learning the techniques of contemporary theatre writing by seeing the results of your work acted out in […]

Who: David Henley When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 4, 11, 18, 25 March; 1, 8 April 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $660; Member: $460; Conc Member: $395 This course is for beginners, but students must be comfortable with using the internet and providing online portals with personal and financial information. They said it would be […]

SOLD OUT – please email us to go on a waiting list Who: Benjamin Law When: Saturday 8 March 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Writing features for magazines doesn’t simply involve cobbling together a decent story. It also requires nailing a perfect pitch, doing robust research, arranging hard-to-get interviews, […]

Who: Walter Mason When: 6 x Sunday mornings: 9, 16, 23, 30 March & 6, 13 April 2014, 10am-1pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 A course in re-igniting your creative spark and learning to share your gifts with the world. The time has come for you to start making your mark! […]

SOLD OUT – please email us to go on a wait list. Who: Kate Forsyth When: Sunday 16 March 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Discover the secret of writing stories that enchant and enthrall the reader, opening a magical gateway so that they can escape to other worlds and […]

Who: Martin Langford When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 18, 25 March; 1, 8, 15, 22 April 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 Explore and refine your poetry in a challenging and supportive environment. Martin Langford has published six books of poetry, directed Australian Poetry Festivals, and is a keen advocate […]

Who: Amruta Slee and guests When: Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 March 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210 What do you need to know about publishing a book and when do you need to know it? What do agents, publishers, editors, marketers and designers bring to the process? And how […]

Who: Arnold Zable When: Saturday 22 March 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 You have a story to tell, or an idea for a story, perhaps several ideas. Taken from life, your own life, or what you have observed in others. Perhaps you have begun to write it, and are […]

Who: Alice Pung When: Saturday 8 March 2014, 10am-4pm PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FROM ORIGINAL COURSE PROGRAM Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Writing from life is tricky – how do you transform a personal narrative (your own, or someone else’s) into something that interests other people? How do you write from […]

SOLD OUT – click here to join the waiting list. Who: Laurel Cohn When: Saturday 5 April 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 A story is like a creature. It can have a multitude of limbs and unusual features, but it needs to be able to stand on its own […]

Who: Anna Conomos When: Saturday 5 April 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Using techniques that have been refined and perfected for over a decade, international storyteller Anna Conomos will give you the skills to bring to life a story from your heritage: a myth, folk or fairy tale of […]

Limited Places – please enquire through the Centre on 9555 9757. Who: Melaina Faranda When: Sunday 6 April 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Want to write for teenagers? It didn’t take Twilight, The Hunger Games, or John Green to tell us that Young Adult fiction is in its ascendancy […]

Who: Laurel Cohn When: Monday 7 April 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Writers often moan and groan about synopses, but there’s no escape – if you want a literary agent to represent you or a commercial publisher to consider your manuscript, you can’t avoid it. Even self-publishers need to […]

This course has been postponed. New date to be announced. Click here to email us and receive updated information. Who: Anne Manne When: Saturday 12 April 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 In this workshop writer and essayist Anne Manne will discuss that most beguiling and versatile of art forms, […]