My small-group, short workshops support writers to do their best writing in an immersive environment, receiving expert guidance and feedback from me, along with feedback and a sense of community from the other writers.
I’ve paused the workshops for 2025, other than the Manuscript Masterclass.
If you’d like to be notified of my next short workshop (2026) or ask questions, please contact me via my Contact page.
I aim to inspire, encourage and challenge writers to produce their best work. I draw upon thirty years of creative writing teaching and workshop experience to create an exciting and deeply informed learning environment.
My Short Writing Workshops include:
- Introductory live meeting (zoom) – we meet, greet, share, discuss workshop techniques and expectations.
- 8-10 Interactive live workshop sessions, evenings (zoom).
- Fortnightly written feedback from participants and myself.
- Individual dialogues with me, via phone/email if needed.
- I use the very user-friendly learning platform Wet Ink, which is dedicated to creative writing teaching and workshop space. For our face-to-face meetings we use zoom.
The workshop is suitable if:
- You’re starting or underway with a work and keen to have feedback on it.
- You want to be challenged to try new techniques and develop new skills in the craft of writing.
- You’re blocked or stuck with an idea or manuscript and need to get it going again.
- You’re finding it challenging to maintain a regular writing habit.
- You want to be part of a community of writers, talking writing matters.
If you’d like to be notified of my next workshop or ask questions, get in touch via my Contact page.
Writers have varied writing aims. Whatever your project is, this workshop is dedicated to supporting each writer to write their best work and to feel good about the writing experience. Some want to bring out an ‘old’ novel or short story, memoir or hybrid work. Others begin a new work, a short story, a novel, a creative essay. Others are wanting to experiment, take risks. Every writer wants, and receives, close discussion and feedback along the way.
Read testimonials from participant writers.
I have designed this online/zoom workshop series from my years as a creative writing workshop leader and teacher in community and university settings. I also have close to fifteen years’ experience in providing the highest quality online workshop experiences. The online mode is one that I’m very experienced with and recognise the value of, for its high quality engagement potential, capacity to create community, and to provide access to people with diverse needs (family/work commitments, time flexibility, disability, international/remote, etc).
Recent workshops:
- Manuscript Masterclass Act 2, 2024
- Autumn 24 Writing Workshop, 2024
- Manuscript Masterclass 2023-2024
- Summer 23 Workshop, 2023
- Autumn 22 Workshop, 2022
- Spring 22 Workshop, 2022
- Summer 21 Workshop, 2021
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