Program of Events
Queensland Writers Centre presents a diverse annual Program of events, workshops and courses on the art, craft and business of writing.
Hear from some of the most enlightening names in Queensland and Australian writing, improve your skills and get inspired with tools to uplift your writing and career.
Featured:
An intensive course designed to help you survive the next draft of your work-in-progress.
Through a series of playful prompts, discover how to overcome the horror of the blank page by generating a bunch of fresh ideas.
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Courses & Special Events
An intensive course designed to help you survive the next draft of your work-in-progress.
Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel.
Don't throw away your shot — get your work and your pitch submission-ready.
Workshops
Learn how to revise and refine your writing to produce polished, focused poems for publication.
Learn how trauma shapes memory, language and narrative, and how to write the arc of post-traumatic growth in memoir and story.
Tired of three acts? Break the rules and reshape your story with bold, unconventional structure.
Through a series of playful prompts, discover how to overcome the horror of the blank page by generating a bunch of fresh ideas.
Through writing games and exercises participants will create characters, conflict, story and structure, and begin to write a new play.
Learn techniques for writing compelling short fiction.
Learn what narrative tension is and why it's the key to making readers care deeply about your story.
The art and business of ghostwriting – from shaping a powerful life story to pitching work that gets published.
Craft dialogue that reveals, conceals, and transforms your story.
Learn how to raise your author profile and secure valuable media exposure for your book.
Discover how to develop your own writer's voice and master the art of character perspective.
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