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, […]

Who: Lisa Jacobson When: Saturday 12 April 2014, 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 memorable poem is like making a fine piece of furniture. It requires the right tools, imagination and […]

Who: Peter Stanley When: Sunday 13 April 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 It’s never been easier to research and write history. The internet, responsive archives and libraries and the laptop computer make it possible to research and write more easily than ever before. But it is arguably harder to […]

Who: Pamela Hewitt When: 6 x Thursday evenings: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May; 5 June 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 This course assume a basic knowledge of word processing and a high level of literacy. This series of six workshops presents the essentials of professional editing. Using practical […]

Who: Bruce Elder When: Saturday 3 May 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Many people return from a holiday or a journey overseas believing that what they have experienced is worth writing about. They may have written a diary or a blog which they have shared with friends and family. […]

Who: Barry Divola When: Saturday 3 May 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 There are many, many different types of writer’s block and Barry Divola is an authority on the subject because he has had most of them. Can’t get started? Can’t get finished? Stuck in the middle? Inner critic […]

Who: Anne Gracie When: Sunday 4 May 2014, 10am-4pm PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE (as original date was scheduled for Mother’s Day). Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Writing romance is not a matter of simply following some formula; like all popular fiction, it must delight and surprise readers. It’s much more varied […]

Who: L.A. Larkin When: Sunday 11 May 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 The top ten living crime fiction authors have sold 450 million books and the figure just keeps rising. Even J.K. Rowling is now writing crime fiction. Do you love gritty detectives, troubled PIs and cool FBI agents, […]

Who: Jan Cornall When: 4 x Sunday mornings: 1, 15, 22, 29 June 2014, 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 […]

Who: Steven Amsterdam When: Saturday 14 June 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Forget the twee meaning of the word. Go back to the dictionary: Charm – to delight, to control. This is the writer’s job, the only job. Too often we get sidetracked. When we let inspiration lead us […]

SOLD OUT – please email us to go on a wait list. Who: Mark Tredinnick When: Saturday 14 June 2014, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Everyone who wants to write will need to get comfortable with the inner life of sentences. If you’re going to write, you’re going to need […]