Festival Workshops

This workshop explores how theme, plotlines, point of view and voice work together to create the story design and determine the relationship between reader and narrative.

Discover easy and innovative ways to market yourself and your writing so you can reach a wider audience, land more projects, deals, grants and opportunities, and sustainably sell your works.

Explore children’s writing and publishing with Matt Stanton, an award-winning author who has published 45 books for children and sold more than a million books in Australia and around the world.

Join award-winning poet, Sara M Saleh, in this workshop on the ways in which a poem can serve as an archive of personal and political hauntings and history.

In this memoir workshop you will reach across different timelines, weaving strands of your personal story united by common themes, making meaning through temporal layering techniques.

Like a writer, fiction has its own voice – a voice that can be hard to find. Join Laura Jean McKay to explore narrative voice – the author’s voice, the story’s voice and the character’s voice.

So you think you’re ready to submit your manuscript to agents and publishers? Get feedback on your work and discuss next steps with an industry expert.

‘Attention is the beginning of devotion.’ – Mary Oliver

Devotion to a writing project requires attention that is not ‘ordinary’. Join Ailsa Piper to expand your writerly observational skills.

So you think you’re ready to submit your manuscript to agents and publishers? Get feedback on your work and discuss next steps with an industry expert.