The Next Draft 2024 with Laurel Cohn
An intensive course designed to help you survive the next draft of your work-in-progress.
An intensive course designed to help you survive the next draft of your work-in-progress.
Learn how to develop characters your readers really care about and how to balance their experience of falling in love with believable obstacles, tension and conflict.
A workshop for writers of prose and poetry, offering recipes for conjuring poems from fiction, breathing new life into old narratives.
Learn more about the critical narrative elements and writing techniques that will hook your readers and keep them turning pages.
Get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, with Queensland Writers Centre's flagship program for emerging writers.
This seminar will explore how to delve deeper into character, through nuance, sensation and feeling.
Receive personal & insightful feedback on an excerpt of your work-in-progress manuscript, in an intimate, supportive class environment.
Learn what journals and publishers want in their short stories and short-form collections, strengthen your submissions, and increase your chances for success.
Putting pen to paper for heightened focus, peace of mind and emotional regulation.
Take a glimpse into the writing processes of superstar pantsers; explore the myths, pros (and cons), and learn practical tips to help you embrace your inner pantser.
Get ready to reach your 2024 writing goals by crafting your very own writer's plan.
Receive personal & insightful feedback on your writing in an intimate, supportive class environment.
A guided critical reading group for writers of fiction and narrative non-fiction.
Electrify your writing through embodied practice. Spark your characters and settings with authenticity and bring them to life in your reader's imagination
All writing is rewriting - we'll learn how to deepen and enrich your work while revising it.
Practical and active in its learning, this workshop will offer you tools to deepen your dialogue. It will then give space for you to apply those tools in small group scene building exercises.
A guide to identifying - and developing - personal and universal stakes in your stories.
Improve your creative writing skills and become inspired to write.
Learn how to use different narrative structures to best craft the story you want to tell.
A journey in data - this seminar will provide data-driven insights over the course of your first year in publishing.
Writing books in a series: better use of time and research, better income, better marketing potential!
Learn practical strategies to better define your characters and strengthen your manuscript. Free for applicants to Publishable 2023.
Explore what it means to write sensitively and respectfully with and about diversity.
Learn how to harness your own unique story, or personal point of view, to write a short publication-worthy piece for print or online.
How much style is too much? Know when to use lush language, and when to keep things simple.
Learn to generate ideas, and flesh them out to create new stories that are ready to write.
Develop the fundamental tools of writing fiction and get started on your first novel.
Receive personal & insightful feedback on your short fiction in an intimate, supportive class environment.
For writers of fiction and non-fiction, examine what happens after trauma or life disruption and how this can lead to new beginnings.
Every family is full of stories. Come along to this workshop to learn how to create an engaging family history.
Receive personal & insightful feedback on your poems in an intimate, supportive class environment.
Work of State Significance award recipient Quentin Beresford on the writing of Wounded Country.
A full demonstration that will teach you how to go from a Word document to having a book available online and/or delivered to your door.
Learn the art of picture book creation, get feedback and enhance your story.
Learn what goes in to making a hit podcast and how to get started on your own!