Join award-winning author Anne Cleary for an interactive, info-packed workshop where she will help you unlock the secrets to writing great short stories. Anne's writing has won or been placed in multiple competitions, including Australia's Short Stories Unlimited and the New Zealand Society of [...]
Fi Be Sullivan has a substantial body of work, poetry and prose, performed and published in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. She has a published novel, Allotted. And In 2023 Fi Be published Integrity, a selection of her poems. Fi B presented [...]
In this R-rated talk, Mollie Smith – pseudonym Molly Lachaussee – will discuss writing love, sex, and erotica, give tips on how to avoid purple prose, delve into the fascinating world of kink, and how to make consent sexy. Molly Lachaussee is a proud [...]
What makes a well-rounded, believable character who your readers will love to love (or to hate!)? Come along and hear some tips, tricks, and techniques to make your characters pop off the page. Anne writes novels and short stories and is keenly interested [...]
A Thematic Framework helps a writer develop the kinds of questions that allow for the creation of a larger picture or a more focused and interesting story. Learn about using a Thematic Framework to consider how our Natural, Cultural and Built heritage links [...]
Planning a Writing Project Whether you think you can or can’t, you are right. (Henry Ford) Understand your writing journey. Get inspired. Get focused. Get it done! From ground zero through to successfully publishing five books in four years, Rachel has got it [...]
This year marks the centenary of Katherine Mansfield’s death (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) Come along to Greerton Library this Sunday to hear award-winning author Carol Garden talk about the life and work of Katherine Mansfield. Carol will explore the woman [...]
Creative Conversations 3rd of 3 Panel Series Four writers from diverse sections of our society share experiences of writing about themselves and their communities. What obstacles have they encountered and has their narrative been a tool in breaking down divisions in society? Sunday [...]
This session explores the role monsters play in modern urban fantasy as a reflection of modern thinking of inclusion, diversity, and equity. Monsters are a metaphor for the human condition: vampires are our quest for immortality, zombies are our rejection of a meaningless [...]
Sharon will be exploring point-of-view, and all the techniques to make our readers see from inside our characters’ heads. This includes show not tell, filtering, action beats and dialogue, head-hopping, internal thought/dialogue, and more. A multi-award nominated author of YA fantasy fiction books, [...]
