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 […]

Who: George Merryman When: 6 x Tuesdays: 23, 30 July; 6, 13, 20, 27 August 2013, 6.30pm – 9.30pm Cost: Full Price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 This six-week course will guide participants through the process of writing for film and television, from initial concept to final draft. With an emphasis on character, story […]

SOLD OUT To view our other upcoming creativity workshops click here. Who: Stephanie Dowrick When: Saturday 27 July 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 In this one-day workshop you will have a rare chance to explore your writing processes at greater depth. Using stimulating reflections, discussion and exercises, you will […]

Who: Kirsten Tranter When: Saturday 27 July 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            Good storytelling depends not only on a gripping plot and strong characters, but also on a convincing voice and a special blend of imagination and style that takes readers into another, fully realized world. Kirsten Tranter is […]

SOLD OUT – Please email to join the waiting list. Who: Lisa Shanahan When: Saturday 7th December 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 A picture book is a unique meeting place. It’s the place where a text meets with the illustrations and the illustrations with a text. It’s a place […]

Who: Pam Brown When: Saturday 3 August 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 This course is an opportunity to develop your poetry with award winning poet, editor (Jacket 2, Overland) and reviewer Pam Brown.  Over the day, together with course participants, Pam will closely consider free-form poems and make useful […]

Who: Barry Divola When: Sunday 11 August 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Do you want to write short fiction but you’re not sure exactly how to go about it? Do you have a lot of ideas but they never seem to become stories? Do you start something but then […]

Sold out! Email workshops@nswwc.org.au to be placed on the waitlist. Who: Will Kostakis When: 2 x Saturday mornings: 17 & 24 August 2013, 10:30am-1:30pm Cost: Full Price: $220; Member: $155; Conc Member: $130            There are two things a writer wants: to be published, and to be read. Thanks to advances in technology, the former has […]

Who: Noeline Kyle When: Sunday 18 August 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            The seductive task of collecting more dates, names, obituaries and other data associated with our family histories – the piling up of the hundreds of documents until they spill will-nilly from our homes/offices/computers – is the collect […]

Who: Gillian Polack When: Saturday 24 August 2013, 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 Polack will teach you how to polish your prose, use punctuation […]

Who: Nicola O’Shea When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 24 August; 7, 21 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December 2013, 1pm – 4pm Cost: Full price: $880; Member: $615; Conc Member: $530 Take your fiction-writing and evaluation skills to the next level in this intense but friendly critique group convened by fiction editor […]

Who: Dr Robyn Ferrell When: 6 x Wednesday evenings: 28 August; 4, 11, 18, 25 September; 2 October 2013; 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 The best creative nonfiction engages the ‘art of truth’ – the way that the manner of its writing brings a subject to life. Creative non-fiction works […]

Who: Sally Swain When: 4 x Friday mornings: 6, 13, 20 & 27 September 2013, 10am-1pm Cost: Full Price: $440; Member: $310; Conc Member: $265           Where has your creativity gone? Don’t fret. It’s not far away. Discover (or rediscover) your creative pulse. Ignite (or reignite) your passion for writing. Give yourself permission to ‘get […]

Who: Geoffrey Atherden When: Saturday 7 September 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110           A one day workshop on the craft of comedy. Humour has a wide spectrum and the workshop will attempt to cover as much of it as possible, from gentle whimsy to raucous slapstick, from serious satire to […]

SOLD OUT Who: Fran Molloy When: Saturday 7 September 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            How can I get my favourite magazine to publish an article I write – and pay me for it? Should I write the story first, and post it – or email it? How much can […]

Who: Rebecca Giggs When:  Sunday 15 September 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            “If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays,” wrote Michel de Montaigne in 1585, “I would make decisions”. This workshop focuses on experimentation in the personal essay; its central concern is how […]

Who: P. M. Newton When: Sunday 22 September 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110           When Raymond Chandler wrote The Simple of Art of Murder it was a rallying call for crime writers to write tough, realist fiction about the kind of people who commit murder for a reason, not just […]

Who: Pat Grant When: Sunday 27 October 2013, 10am-4pm (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FROM SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER) Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Sometimes it feels like the ability to sling a decent sentence isn’t quite enough for a writer in the modern world. The literary landscape is now littered with screens, […]

Who: Felicity Castagna When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 15, 22, 29 October; 5, 12, 19 November 2013, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full price: $600; Member: $420; Conc Member: $360 This six-week, intensive course enables students to thoroughly get their heads around creating memorable, contemporary short stories. The course will cover the basics as well as challenging students […]

Who: Deborah Abela When: Saturday 19 October 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. Roald Dahl Writing for children can […]