Who: Zena Shapter When: Wednesday 1 May 2013, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $50; Member: $35; Conc Member: $30 Ever wondered… why all the fuss about social media? Isn’t Twitter for twits and Facebook for teenagers? Introducing you to the most popular social media platforms, Zena Shapter will guide you through the minefield that is social […]

Who: Tony Spencer-Smith When: 4 x Thursday evenings: 2, 9, 16, 23 May 2013, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $400; Member: $280; Conc Member: $240 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 […]

Who: Geoffrey Atherden When: Saturday 4 May 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $165; Member: $115; Conc Member: $100 This one day workshop for writers who are new to writing scripts will cover the basics of script formatting, and the life cycle of a script, as it travels from submission to a producer, to readings, rehearsals, […]

SOLD OUT Who: Andy Kissane When: 6 x Thursday evenings: 9, 23 May; 6, 20 June; 4, 18 July 2013, 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 […]

Who: Pamela Freeman When: Saturday 11 May 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $165; Member: $115; Conc Member: $100 A jam-packed one-day workshop with award winning writer Pamela Freeman.  We will look at those elements of writing which make speculative fiction different from everything else:  world-building, coherent systems of magic/technology/myth, the relationship between character and world, […]

When: Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 May 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $320; Member: $225; Conc Member: $190 Writing for young adults is rewarding, challenging, exhilarating, and – like anything worthwhile – also hard work. This hands-on, interactive two-day workshop, led by award winning children’s and young adult author, Sue Lawson, covers topics such as […]

Who: Timothy Daly When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 1, 8, 15, 22 June; 6, 13, 20, 27 July 2013, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $800; Member: $560; Conc Member: $480 These eight intensive sessions are designed to teach you the techniques for writing full-length plays and selling them to the national & international theatre markets. Each […]

Who: Judith Ridge, James Roy, Angelo Loukakis, Sophie Hamley and guest When: Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June 2013, 10am-5pm (Please note date was incorrectly printed in the course program as July) Cost: Full Price: $320; Member: $225; Conc Member: $190 You decided to become a writer because you’re good at expressing yourself creatively. What […]

Sold Out – please email workshops@nswwc.org.au to go on waitlist. Who: Mark Tredinnick When: Saturday 15 June 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $165; Member: $115; Conc Member: $100 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 to get […]

ONE SPOT LEFT! Who:Felicity Castagna When: Sunday 16 June 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $165; Member: $115; Conc Member: $100 Annie Proulx once said that Brokeback Mountain isn’t about two gay cowboys; it’s about the West and its sense of place. The expression ‘a sense of place’ is a critical catchphase that often defies clear […]

Sold Out Who: Peter Skrzynecki When: Saturday 22 June 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $165; Member: $115; Conc Member: $100 Throughout the centuries, poets have tried to capture moments of spiritual awakenings when the world as we know it falls away and we enter a different realm. We return changed, having become part of an […]

Who: Elizabeth Cowell When: 8 x Sunday mornings: 30 June; 14, 21 28 July; 4, 11, 18, 25 August 2013, 10:30am-1:30pm Cost: Full Price: $960; Member: $670; Conc Member: $580 Bring your fiction writing to the next level by learning to evaluate and edit your own work in this intense but friendly focus group, convened […]

Sold Out! To view our next crime workshop click here. Who:Barry Maitland When: Sunday 30 June 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $165; Member: $115; Conc Member: $100 Would you like to write gripping fiction, with vivid characters, strong and ingenious story lines and a powerful sense of place? Crime novels have all of these, and […]

SOLD OUT – please email to be placed on the waiting list. Who:Robin Hemley When:Saturday 1 June 2013, 10am-4pm Cost:Full Price: $200; Member: $140; Conc Member: $120 Robin Hemley is the newly appointed Director of Writing at Yale-NUS College, he is the former Director of the Non-Fiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, one […]

Who: George Catsi When: Saturday 13 July 2013, 10am-4pm           Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 You’ve written your work and now you’re being asked to read it out loud.  Whether at a festival or any form of public reading these are promotional moments that can convert a listener, if you read it […]

Who: Krissy Kneen When: Saturday 13 July 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Erotica has risen in popularity in recent months and yet even the best-selling erotic novels are criticised for their clunky prose and unsexy sex scenes. Join critically acclaimed writer of genuinely erotic literary sex, Krissy Kneen as […]

SOLD OUT Please email to go on the waiting list. Who: Emily Craven When: Sunday 14 July 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Trying to get a handle on the E-Book Revolution? This workshop is for writers who wish to understand how changes in publishing can benefit them. It covers […]

Who: Vicki Morrison When: Tuesday 16 July 2013, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $55; Member: $40; Conc Member: $35 Today’s publisher expects their authors to contribute significantly to the publicity of their books. But most authors are not trained as publicists, so where do you start? Whether you are published traditionally or as an e-book, this […]

Who: Jan Cornall When: Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $350; Member: $250; Conc Member: $210     So you’d like to write a memoir, a story from your life. You’ve never done it before and you have no idea where to begin and even less idea where to end. And the […]

Who: Peter Minter When: Sunday 1 December, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy, Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven, Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.                                                 from ‘To Summer’ by William Blake On the first day of […]