Community Learning

Creative Writing

Nurture your creativity and explore where your writing can take you. A series of workshops playing with words and forms: poetry, short story, memoir, myth and journalling. A flexible course catering to participants’ interests. Course description Creativity is part of being human. We may express our creativity through stunning dinner parties, rooms to be lost in, gardens that make our neighbours…

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Credible Characters

Developing convincing three dimensional characters is a fundamental part of writing fiction. We will discuss the elements that make a character convincing, look at some extracts from published work and do some writing exercises to begin developing your own character. The exercises will begin with external characteristics, then move into internal characteristics, and finally start asking why the character…

Improve Your Writing Skills - Continuation

Consolidate your grammar, punctuation and self-editing skills. An opportunity for continuing and new students to identify their own strengths and weaknesses, and extend their writing proficiencies. Individual and class work as needed. Course description If you can’t afford to make mistakes and need your writing to be beyond reproach, then you need to know how and why good writing works. We all have…

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Writers' Workshop

This course will encourage you to use a combination of experience and word experiments to tell your own story, unlock your creativity and write for pleasure, for yourself, or others. During the course you will finda voice (writing style) that suits you, create a plot with freshness and originality, learn about taget audiences and writing for specific publishers. Course Outcomes You will gain…

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Basic Proofreading

Proofreading – a lot more than meets the untrained eye! Qualified editors show you how to identify errors and inconsistencies in documents (or posters or menus or novels!). Course description We will investigate the proofreader’s place in writing and publishing and the differences between proofreading and editing. (For anyone contemplating a career in editing or proofreading the tutorswill be…

FanFiction - Creating Your Own Stories

World Wide phenomena! Try your hand at FanFiction. Write characterisation and scenarios for your favourite character or hero from a book of fiction. Unlock imagination and self expression, share ideas and inspiration, and brain storm with a group of like minded enthusiastic writers. Course Description discover what FanFiction is all about how to choose characters and heroes that appeal to…

Get Your Book Published

Give your book its best chance. Learn what is required at every stage, from pen to publication, and create a publishing pitch specifically for your book. Course description This two-session course will give you an understanding of what is required to publish a book in Australia: the steps involved, the costs, the pleasures and the pain. Commercial publishing, self-publishing and e-publishing are also…

Improve Your Writing Skills

Improve your everyday writing skills. A series of refresher workshops on grammar, punctuation and spelling. Course description Students will have the opportunity to choose the direction the sessions will take if they have specific tasks to work on. The first session will look at two of the most common stumbling blocks in writing: punctuation and spelling. Let’s start with the apostrophe, and…

Picture the Book

300 words or less. How hard could writing a children’s picture book possibly be? Learn to cut and polish your picture book gem. Advice on the presentation and publication in Australia of books for children of all ages. Course description There will be opportunities to discuss any of your own book ideas and potential publishers. Work on a laptop if you wish.( You will need to bring your own.)…

Poetry Workshop

Anyone can write a poem! Through a series of exercises write a poem, edit it and send it to a journal/e-zine to be published. New and former students welcome. What to bring: A poem you like A poem of your own if you’d like some editing help/feedback Pen and paper 50c cup for tea/coffee Your lunch Important information: Children must not accompany adults to this class. Medical…