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 […]

Who: Tony Spencer-Smith When: Saturday 19 October 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 Words are powerful tools to persuade, explain, motivate and inspire. This course is for people who already write well but want to increase the impact and intensity of their words. Whether you are a business writer trying […]

Who: Elizabeth Cowell When: 4 x Tuesday evenings: 22 & 29 October; 5 & 12 November 2013, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $440; Member: $310; Conc Member: $265           Grammar, spelling and punctuation are important when you’re writing for publication, but a professional edit involves much more than correcting typos and putting all the apostrophes in […]

Who: With Judith Beveridge When: 6 x Thursday evenings: 24, 31 October; 7, 14, 21, 28 November 2013, 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: Walter Mason When: Saturday 26 October 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110            As more and more of us travel, many are becoming increasingly interested in recording their journeys. In this course Walter will take you through the ways you can capture the essence of place as well as your […]

Who: Anna Maria Dell’oso When: Saturday 26 October 2013, 10am – 4pm Cost: $55 This one-day seminar takes a practical look at creativity: how do writers generate their ideas? It is designed to assist students to find, explore, clarify and commit to the concepts that will drive their Major Work.  The ‘germinal idea’ is the […]

Who: Anna Maria Dell’oso When: 2 x Sundays: 23 February & 2 March 2014, 10am – 4pm Cost: $165 This workshop is about the universal next draft problem: ‘My concept is clear in my head but how do I get it to work on the page?’ Over two days, students will learn practical techniques to […]

Who: Anna Maria Dell’oso When: Sunday 18 May 2014, 10am – 4pm Cost: $110 Whether you are still in a bit of a Concept Crisis or boldly refining the penultimate draft of your finished Work, this one-day workshop is about last-draft writing and getting a strong well-edited manuscript ready for submission. Limited to twelve students, […]

Who: Matt Finch When: Saturday 9 November 2013, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price: $180; Member: $125; Conc Member: $110 There is no-one in the library when the children arrive. Blood is pooled on the front step.  Within, bookshelves have been knocked to the ground, their contents spilled across the carpet. The children suspect a prank. “Is this […]