Who:  Selena Hanet-Hutchins When: Saturday 21 April 2012, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price $150; Member $105; Conc Member $90 Code:  12HANE4 ‘Join waiting list’ Ever hovered over a hyphen, or a “which” or “that”? Have valuable workshop minutes been lost in debate about apostrophes, or “and” or “but” at the start of a sentence? Uncertain of […]

Who:  Robert Hood When: Sunday 4 March 2012-10am-4pm Cost: Full price $150; Member $105; Conc Member $90 Code: 12HOOD3 Whether dealing with angels or demons, past or future, aliens, post-humans or artificial intelligences, stories of alternate realities, imagined futures and fantastical impossibilities have been a never-ending source of fascination for writers and readers for as […]

Who:  Jacqueline Kent When: 6x Saturday afternoons; 21 & 28 April; 5, 19 & 26 May, 2nd June 2012, 1pm – 4pm. NOTE: 19 May (Only)- Time Change- 1:30pm-4:30pm Cost: Full Price $540; Member $380; Conc Member $325 Code: 12KENT4  Whether you are setting down your experiences for your children or grandchildren, explaining your part in larger events, or […]

Who: Joyce Kornblatt When: Sunday 22 April 2012, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price $150; Member $105; Conc Member $90 Code: 12KORN4  If we let go of our beliefs about how to write, what to write and whether or not we’re any good at writing, what might we discover about our creativity? In this experiential course, we’ll explore writing from what […]

Who:  Benjamin Law When: Sunday 10 June 2012, 10am-4pm Full Price $150; Member $105; Conc Member $90 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney This workshop is suitable for fiction writers wanting to apply their writing skills to a new field, or journalists looking for a new way to present a good story. It will lead you through every […]

Who:  Bem Le Hunte Cost: Complete Course – Three Acts (additional 10% discount) Full Price: $2430, Member: $1730, Conc Member: $1470 Code: 12LEHU2 Make this the year that you write that novel or novella you’ve yet to start or complete. This course gives you the inspiration, the camaraderie, the structure, skills and motivation to write […]

Who:  Maggie MacKellar When: Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 June 2012 10am-4pm. Full price $290; Member $205; Conc Member $175 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney Whether your form is fiction, memoir or a blog, this course will challenge and stimulate the way you think about writing emotion. This writing course is for anyone who is trying to […]

Who:  Emily Maguire When: Sunday 13 May 2012, 10am-4pm Cost: Full Price $150; Member $105; Conc Member $90 Code: 12MAGU5 In this one-day intensive, Emily will provide an introduction to the elements of fiction including character, point of view, voice, setting and plot. She will discuss each element using examples from contemporary and classic works of fiction, which will […]

Who: Jane Meredith When: Saturday 4 February 2012, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $150; Member: $105; Conc Member: $90 Code: 12MERE2 Perhaps you are a fiction writer, wanting to show your characters’ spiritual, as well as their emotional and practical lives? Or perhaps a poet, seeking to infuse your language with the numinous lifeforce? Or a playwright, […]

Who: Angela Meyer When: Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 March 2012-10:30am-1:30pm Where: Leichhardt Library, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt NSW Cost: Full Price $180; Member $125; Conc Member $110 Code: 12MEYE3 You want to start a blog but you’re really not sure where to begin. It could be for business, pleasure, criticism, charity, or to build a profile or portfolio. […]

Who: John Newton When: 6 x Tuesday evenings: 22 & 29 May; 5, 12, 19 & 26 June 2012, 6.30pm – 9.30pm  Full Price $540; Member $380; Conc Member $325 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney Whether you write reviews, recipes or just want to celebrate the delights of the palate, this course for writers has got something […]

Who:  Kevin O’Brien When: 8 x Saturdays afternoons: 21 & 28 April; 5,12, 19 & 26 May; 2 & 9 June 2012, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price $865; Member $605; Conc Member $520 Code:  12OBRI4 Join waiting list Bring your fiction-writing and evaluation skills to the next level in this intense but friendly focus group, convened by Random House […]

Who: Nick Parsons When: Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 May 2012, 10am-4pm Full price $290; Member $205; Conc Member $175 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney The most common faults in drama writing are those of structure, and yet the principles are well understood and can be easily learned. This writing course covers the essentials of turning points, […]

Who:  Lachlan Philpott When: Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 March 2012, 10am-4pm Where: Leichhardt Library, 23 Norton Street Leichhardt NSW Cost: Full Price $290; Member $205; Conc Member $175 Code: 12PHIL3 In this two-day workshop, Lachlan will be offering inspiring ways to begin writing a play and providing a pathway to get to the final scene. You will […]

Who: Tohby Riddle When: Sunday 12 Feb 2012, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price $150; Member  $105; Conc Member $90 Code: 12RIDD2 Good work comes from good thinking. Muliti-award-winning picture book creator Tohby Riddle leads you through the process of creating and making a picture book – with an emphasis on ways of thinking about words and pictures designed to extend each […]

Who: Judith Ridge, Angelo Loukakis, Pamela Freeman and Dale Hollingsworth When: Saturday 25 February 2012, 10am – 5pm Cost: Full Price $150; Member $105 (30% disc); Conc Member $90 (40% disc) Code: 12RIDG2 You decided to become a writer because you’re good at expressing yourself creatively. What you weren’t expecting was all those other aspects you have to deal […]

Who:  James Roy, featuring special guest Jody Lee Cost: Full Price $970; Member $675 (30% discount) Conc Member $580 (40% discount). Complete course – three phases (additional 10% discount). Writing for young adults – it’s a skill that is often undervalued. After all, teenagers are only interested in vampires, technology and loud music, aren’t they? Besides, they don’t have anything […]

Who: Brendan Shanahan When: Saturday 12 May 2012, 10am-4pm Cost: Full price: $150; Member: $105; Conc Member: $90 Code: 12SHAN5 Travel writing has spawned categories and sub-categories, but the travel novel has increased in standing as serious literature. More than a memoir, an exceptional travel novel is a distinct blend of the personal, the novel and the cultural, defined […]

Who:  Lisa Shanahan When: Saturday 16 June 2012, 10am-4pm Full price: $150; Member: $105; Conc Member: $90 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney This one-day writing course for beginning picture book writers outlines the journey of creating a picture book from the first seed to final story A picture book is a unique meeting place. […]

Who:  Peter Skrzynecki When: Saturday 23 June 2012, 10am-4pm Full price: $150; Member: $105; Conc Member: $90 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney This poetry writers course is  designed to develop your writing by illustrating how the Ordinary can reveal the Extraordinary and how these experiences exist around us all the time. Throughout the centuries, […]