Learn the fine points of writing young adult fiction with award-winning novelist Lisa Fuller.

An extended online program focussing on how to prepare the best possible fiction and nonfiction manuscripts

An extended online program focussing on how to prepare the best possible fiction and nonfiction manuscripts

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In this online program Mary Cunnane will demystify the publishing process both in Australia and overseas. How are books ‘signed’? What will a publisher do for an author? Do you really need an agent? What’s the best way to develop an effective book proposal? These are just some of the questions that will be answered in this short program.

In this one-off session, Benjamin Law will be answering any and all questions about writing feature journalism, memoir, columns, TV shows, stage plays and essays. Make a cuppa or pour a wine. Whether it’s about time management, interviewing techniques, pitching, writers’ block, invoicing, how to approach agents or anything else, he’ll answer them all in this special Q&A.

What is voice and how does a writer cultivate it? What are the essential components of a powerful opening? What are the most effective ways to evoke character and setting? Davidoff brings extensive teaching and trade publishing experience to this unique short-course opportunity.

Learn how to self-edit fiction like an editor.

So you’ve written a full-length manuscript? Well, now the real work begins. This online program comprising 3 x 2-hour sessions will teach you how to undertake a structural edit and make your manuscript the very best that it can be, increasing the chance of publication.

This event will be Live Streamed

Celebrate the launch of a release sure to rocket up the bestseller charts, The Safe Place. In a pairing of the New Guard of Australian thriller writers, Harry Hartog have newcomer Anna Downes, and JP Pomare, a writer known for his nailbiters Call Me Evie and In the Clearing. They will reveal just enough of The Safe Place's premise to tantalise you, and give the low-down on the art of writing a thriller that is all killer, no filler.