Talking Writing: The Body is going online!

Join us Thursday 30 April from 6:30pm for a fascinating discussion writing the body.

This special event on writers’ groups hosted at Writing NSW features award-wining author of The Erratics, Vicki Laveau-Harvie, and knowledgeable convenors of our writing groups.

A panel event featuring discussions and readings with writers from the African diaspora.

This celebration marks the launch of the 2020 January-June Course Program and is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the end of the year with our wonderful network of members, staff and some of our very talented tutors.

Keen to enrol in our popular Year of the Novel course next year, but not sure what you might get out of it, or how best to prepare over the summer? Then you should come along to our Year of the Novel celebration on Tuesday 12 November, 6:30-8:30pm at Writing NSW

Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, Boundless, will return to Western Sydney on Saturday 26 October 2019.

Our next First Friday Club meeting falls on 4 October and features Hazel Lam, Senior Book Designer at HarperCollins.

On Friday 6 September we’ll be chatting with Nicola Evans, head of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and Reading Australia.

In its annual Honouring Australian Writers series, Writing NSW pays tribute to Sumner Locke Elliott (1917-1991) at an event on the 17th August 2019

Our next First Friday Club meeting falls on 2 August and features Bianca Whiteley, Account Director at Nielsen Book.

BOOKED OUT – On Friday 26 July, publishers from Penguin Random House will be in residence at Writing NSW.

Join us on Friday 5 July for a very bookish First Friday Club as we chat to Cheryl Akle, founder of Australia’s largest online book community, Better Reading.

A one-day festival offering insights into the speculative fiction industry from award-winning authors, publishers, agents and editors.

Writing NSW is hitting the road on Sunday 9 June for this special Inside Publishing event at Bellingen Readers and Writers’ Festival.

Our next First Friday Club meeting falls on 7 June and features Zoe Walton, a publisher of books for young readers at Penguin Random House Australia.

This month we are joined by Angela Meyer, publisher at Echo Publishing and author of A Superior Spectre. Join us for an insightful discussion on the behind-the-scenes workings of the publishing industry, followed by a delicious morning tea.

A panel event discussing the revival of Aboriginal languages in celebration of UNESCO’s 2019 International Year Of Indigenous Languages.