Over my many years of teaching creative writing I’ve written a great deal for students…
Category: Writing Workshop
I declare the ‘writer’s garret’ a myth. By which I mean that the image of…
This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…
This is an intensive set of workshops to encourage a regular writing practice, with each participant submitting 500-2000 words (or equivalent for poetry) fortnightly, for feedback and discussion.
The novel manuscript’s needs are great, and constant. Novels are anti-social creatures that don’t want…
A take-away from last week’s sessions had to do with gathering small scenes or sequences of incidents together into a more substantive single scene.
In the most recent of Writing NSW’s First Friday Club talks, hosted by author Ashley Kalagian Blunt, publisher…
A thousand pages of writing were framed by Mantel’s first paragraphs about Cromwell the boy:…
“Lie about everything to anyone who’s a stranger to you.” Reading excerpts of Walter Serner’s…