Here's something fresh in from Bruno that might interest you students and other writers in the community:
Free Writing Workshops with Published Authors
As part of the Brimbank Literary Festival, Brimbank City Council presents a series of free writing workshops. Book your space now!
ESL Workshop with Amra Pajalic
Amra’s short stories have appeared in the 2004 and 2005 Best Australian Short Stories, various magazines, journals and anthologies. Her novel The Good Daughter won the Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award.
This workshop is conducted in English and aimed at an ESL audience – all welcome.
Thursday 24 June
1pm-2pm
AMES
16 Victoria Crescent
Victoria Square
St Albans
Bookings Tel: 9366 0433
Adult Short Story Writing with Margaret McCarthy
Margaret McCarthy is a published poet, writer and teacher working in Melbourne’s west. Her creative writing work has won awards and is published widely.
Monday 28 June
6.30pm-8.30pm
Hunt Club Community Arts Centre
775 Ballarat Road
Deer Park
Bookings Tel: 9361 6600
Poetry Workshop with Tara Mokhtari
Tara is a well respected poetry and creative writing teacher at Victoria University, has completed two verse novel manuscripts, and is regularly published. Tara believes in making poetry a more accessible genre, particularly for young people.
Tuesday 29 June
6.30pm-7.30pm
Sunshine Library
301 Hampshire Road
Bookings Tel: 9249 4640
Kids and Teens Workshop with Michael Wagner
Michael will unravel the art of storytelling to reveal: the basic ingredients of all stories; the three main types of story ending; how to bring any story to a satisfying conclusion; and how to effectively create moving pictures in the reader’s mind.
Wednesday 30 June
10am-12noon
Sydenham Community Centre
7 Community Hub
Bookings Tel: 9390 3977
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Literary exhibitions and other free events from Hobsons Bay Libraries
As well as The Independent Type: Books and Writing in Victoria exhibition, Hobsons Bay Libaries are running a series of workshops on a great variety of topics. They're free, so why not sign up to one or more?
Exhibition Opening and Curator Talk - Steve Grimwade
Thursday, 22nd April 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Curator and Melbourne Writers Festival Director, Steve Grimwade will present an engaging session on the exhibition.
Bookings: http://www.stevegrimwade.eventbrite.com/
Children’s Books and Poetry - Publishing Your Work
Wednesday, 28th April 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Adam Wallace, poet and writer, will workshop tips on writing for children, rhyme, getting published, self-publishing and writing resources. Join us for warming soup at 6.00pm and bring some of your writing or poetry to share.
Bookings: http://www.adamwallace.eventbrite.com/
Books, Banjo and Bushmen - The History is in the Story
Thursday, 29th April 2.00pm – 3.30pm
Join storytellers Dave Davies and Jackie Kerin, and musician Greg O’Leary for an afternoon of traditional tales, from Banjo Paterson to Ned Kelly.
Bookings: http://www.booksbanjo.eventbrite.com/
Getting it Down - The Basic Steps to Becoming a Writer
Express Media workshop with Arnold Zable
Tuesday, 4th May 9.30am – 11.30am
Express Media are a key contact point for people under 25 wishing to enter the realm of literature. Author of Café Scheherazade Arnold Zable will workshop the basic steps to
‘getting it down’ and becoming a writer.
Bookings: http://www.arnoldzable.eventbrite.com/
Writing the Perfect Crime - Explore the Possibilities
Victorian Writers Centre workshop with Jared Henry
Saturday, 8th May 10.00am – 12.00pm
Have you ever wanted to write a crime novel or short story? No matter what kind of crime novel, be guided by leading Australian crime writer Jared Henry, author of Blood Sunset.
Bookings: http://www.perfectcrime.eventbrite.com/
Winning Writers - Secrets and Lines
Saturday, 15th May 10.00am – 12.00pm
Award winning writer and editor Glenys Osborne will talk about what to do, and not to do when you are writing and sending your stories out to competitions and publications.
Bookings: http://www.writersecrets.eventbrite.com/
Exhibition Opening and Curator Talk - Steve Grimwade
Thursday, 22nd April 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Curator and Melbourne Writers Festival Director, Steve Grimwade will present an engaging session on the exhibition.
Bookings: http://www.stevegrimwade.eventbrite.com/
Children’s Books and Poetry - Publishing Your Work
Wednesday, 28th April 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Adam Wallace, poet and writer, will workshop tips on writing for children, rhyme, getting published, self-publishing and writing resources. Join us for warming soup at 6.00pm and bring some of your writing or poetry to share.
Bookings: http://www.adamwallace.eventbrite.com/
Books, Banjo and Bushmen - The History is in the Story
Thursday, 29th April 2.00pm – 3.30pm
Join storytellers Dave Davies and Jackie Kerin, and musician Greg O’Leary for an afternoon of traditional tales, from Banjo Paterson to Ned Kelly.
Bookings: http://www.booksbanjo.eventbrite.com/
Getting it Down - The Basic Steps to Becoming a Writer
Express Media workshop with Arnold Zable
Tuesday, 4th May 9.30am – 11.30am
Express Media are a key contact point for people under 25 wishing to enter the realm of literature. Author of Café Scheherazade Arnold Zable will workshop the basic steps to
‘getting it down’ and becoming a writer.
Bookings: http://www.arnoldzable.eventbrite.com/
Writing the Perfect Crime - Explore the Possibilities
Victorian Writers Centre workshop with Jared Henry
Saturday, 8th May 10.00am – 12.00pm
Have you ever wanted to write a crime novel or short story? No matter what kind of crime novel, be guided by leading Australian crime writer Jared Henry, author of Blood Sunset.
Bookings: http://www.perfectcrime.eventbrite.com/
Winning Writers - Secrets and Lines
Saturday, 15th May 10.00am – 12.00pm
Award winning writer and editor Glenys Osborne will talk about what to do, and not to do when you are writing and sending your stories out to competitions and publications.
Bookings: http://www.writersecrets.eventbrite.com/
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Another event at the Writers' Centre
It is important for a new writer to consider all options available to them. When it comes to being published it is not simply a case of bigger is better and very often writers will have far more success approaching a smaller publishing house. Find out more at...
Small Press and Magazine Publishers
With Affirm Press, Wilkins Farrago and Host, Zoe Dattner (SPUNC)
Panel: Join SPUNC general manager, Zoe Dattner, Rebecca Starford (Affirm Press) and Andrew Wilkins (Wilkins Farago), members of the Small Press Underground Networking Community. Small publishers produce award-winning fiction, critical non-fiction, acclaimed journals and magazines and serve as a launching pad for some of Australia’s best known authors. This session will cover current markets out there for new writers and the benefits of approaching small press publishers.
Rebecca Starford is the associate publisher at Affirm Press. http://www.affirmpress.com.au/ She is the former deputy editor of Australian Book Review and writes regularly for the book review pages of The Age and The Weekend Australian.
Andrew Wilkins is the former publisher of Australia's book industry magazine, Bookseller+Publisher, and now the Director of Wilkins Farago (http://www.wilkinsfarago.com.au), publishing both adult and children's books.
When: Wednesday 31 March, 6.30-8pm
Cost: $15, Members $12/$10
Small Press and Magazine Publishers
With Affirm Press, Wilkins Farrago and Host, Zoe Dattner (SPUNC)
Panel: Join SPUNC general manager, Zoe Dattner, Rebecca Starford (Affirm Press) and Andrew Wilkins (Wilkins Farago), members of the Small Press Underground Networking Community. Small publishers produce award-winning fiction, critical non-fiction, acclaimed journals and magazines and serve as a launching pad for some of Australia’s best known authors. This session will cover current markets out there for new writers and the benefits of approaching small press publishers.
Rebecca Starford is the associate publisher at Affirm Press. http://www.affirmpress.com.au/ She is the former deputy editor of Australian Book Review and writes regularly for the book review pages of The Age and The Weekend Australian.
Andrew Wilkins is the former publisher of Australia's book industry magazine, Bookseller+Publisher, and now the Director of Wilkins Farago (http://www.wilkinsfarago.com.au), publishing both adult and children's books.
When: Wednesday 31 March, 6.30-8pm
Cost: $15, Members $12/$10
More on one of the Writers' Centre events: novel weekend
A Novel Weekend
With internationally acclaimed author Linda Jaivin
Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 April 2010
10am-4pm
Cost: $270, VWC Members: $210 / $190
Ever wanted to write your own novel? Sitting on an unfinished manuscript? Over two days, Linda Jaivin will guide you on a journey from inspiration to creation. Through a combination of lecture, discussion and a vari-ety of short writing exercises, she will introduce the ba-sics of novel-writing. How do you come up with a good idea for a novel? How do you get started? What comes first, character or plot? How to stop telling and start showing? Where will it all end? She will also teach you how to be your own best editor. This course is open to writers of all levels.
Linda Jaivin is the internationally acclaimed author of six novels, numerous short stories and has also produced several plays. Linda’s first novel Eat Me was an interna-tional bestseller and remains a cult-classic. Her fourth, The Infernal Optimist, was shortlisted for the ASL Gold Medal. Her latest is A Most Immoral Woman (2009).
Victorian Writers' Centre
Level 3, The Wheeler Centre
176 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne, VIC
3000
Book and pay via our website:
http://vwc.org.au/what-s-on
Phone: 03 9094 7855
Workshop for young writers and editors
Text Camp 2010 is an ambitious evolution of Next Wave’s inaugural and highly successful Text Camp program from our last Festival in 2008.
Text Camp 2010 is a three-stage workshop, mentorship, and digital and printed publication project, which will involve three groups of young and emerging writers and editors, aged 30 and under, being mentored in either critical or creative writing, or arts publishing and editing. Each stream will contain a maximum of five people, with different mentors for each stream.
The three streams being offered in Text Camp 2010 are:
• Creative Responses to Creative Works with Nic Low
• Critical Conditions with Rosemary Forde
• Independent Arts Publishing with Dylan Rainforth
HOW TO APPLY
Next Wave is excited to offer 15 places to young writers and editors from across Australia. Please download and read the details about the project, and fill out the application form
DEADLINE
Thursday 15 April, 2010 (post-mark and email date)
QUESTIONS
For any questions about Text Camp 2010, email Ulanda Blair at Next Wave, or call us on 03 9329 9422.
Regards,
Ulanda.
Text Camp 2010 is a three-stage workshop, mentorship, and digital and printed publication project, which will involve three groups of young and emerging writers and editors, aged 30 and under, being mentored in either critical or creative writing, or arts publishing and editing. Each stream will contain a maximum of five people, with different mentors for each stream.
The three streams being offered in Text Camp 2010 are:
• Creative Responses to Creative Works with Nic Low
• Critical Conditions with Rosemary Forde
• Independent Arts Publishing with Dylan Rainforth
HOW TO APPLY
Next Wave is excited to offer 15 places to young writers and editors from across Australia. Please download and read the details about the project, and fill out the application form
DEADLINE
Thursday 15 April, 2010 (post-mark and email date)
QUESTIONS
For any questions about Text Camp 2010, email Ulanda Blair at Next Wave, or call us on 03 9329 9422.
Regards,
Ulanda.
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