Creative Writing Clinics

Looking for inspiration?

Whether you long to tell your life story, create a classic picture book or record the history of your favourite pub, I have a creative writing clinic for you.

I primarily run these creative writing clinics in Victoria several times a year, but can offer these interstate, so why not get a group together?  If you would like to know when I am next offering these clinics in your area, drop me a line [email protected], use the contact form or  hit subscribe.

Elementary, my dear writer

Do you want to write a book but don’t know where to start? Do you have a story idea that won’t let you go? Are you a secret scribbler who’s been too shy to share your work so far? If so, then ‘...

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Pitching to Publishers

Where do you send that brilliant novel (or short story or feature article) you’ve written? Just searching for ‘publishers’ isn’t going to get you very far. You need to know how publishers think...

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Nonfiction Facts

Knowing what you’re writing and who your audience might be is the basis of this full-day creative writing clinic. Learn how to structure your work, find your ‘voice’ as a nonfiction writer and where ...

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Writing your Life

In this full-day clinic, we explore how ‘the facts’ and ‘truth’ are not necessarily the same thing, learn how to create a narrative that gives others a window into your life experiences and discover ways to en...

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Dissecting the Frog*

In this workshop we look at how the best writers draw you in to their work, how they use language and how to apply these techniques to your own writing. *No frogs are harmed in the making of this course.

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