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, […]

Who:  Tony Spencer-Smith When: 4x Thursday evenings; 19 & 26 April, 3 & 10 May 2012 -6:30-9:30PM Cost: Full price: $360; Member: $250; Conc Member: $215 Code: 12SPEN4 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 […]

Who: Bem Le Hunte Dates: 10 x Tuesday evenings: 7,14,21 & 28 February; 6 & 27 March; 3,10,17 & 24 April 2012, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $900; Member: $640; Conc Member: $545 Code: 12LEHU2 Click here to Join the Wait-list Make this the year you write that novel or novella you’ve yet to start or […]

Who: Bem Le Hunte When: 10 x Tuesday evenings: 5,12,19 & 26 June; 2,9,16,23 & 30 October; 6 & 13 November 2012, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $900; Member: $640; Conc Member: $545 Code: 12LEHU6 Act Two is where our action happens. Where we make form out substance, drawing together the ideas, possibilities and words we’ve […]

Who: Bem Le Hunte Dates: 10 x Tuesday evenings: 11, 18 & 25 September; 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 October; 6 & 13 November 2012, 6:30pm-9:30pm Cost: Full Price: $900; Member: $640; Conc Member: $545 Code: 12LEHU2 This phase of the course is all about getting ready for publication-a time for troubleshooting and improving-for […]

Please note change of dates Who: Timothy Daly When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 10, 17, 24 & 31 March; 21 & 28 April; 5 & 12May 2012, 1pm-4pm Cost: Full price: $720; Member: $510; Conc Member: $435 Code: 12DALY3 Timothy Daly is one of Australia’s most internationally successful playwrights, with a string of national and […]

Who: Timothy Daly When: 8 x Saturday afternoons: 30 June; 7, 14, 21 July; 4, 11, 18 & 25 August 2012, 1pm-4pm Full price: $720; Member: $510; Conc Member: $435 Location: NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle, Sydney Open to both beginning writers for theatre as well as those with some experience, this writing course is one […]