Previous Courses - One to Four Month Courses - Sydney

Editing Your Own Writing

with Mark Mordue

Revision and redrafting are essential parts of building a successful manuscript – so learning to edit yourself, often before you are working with an actual editor, is an essential step in learning how to write well.

In this unique course, your teacher will take you through the process of working with an editor if your piece is accepted for publication. You will have an opportunity to workshop your own material, as well as discuss that of fellow participants. This is a chance to get your prose into the best shape it possibly can be before submitting it to publications.

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Writing for Children - Beginners

with Anna Fienberg

Writing for Children is the perfect beginner course for people who wish to write for children.

Children are discerning readers and the children's publishing industry is highly competitive. To write a children's book that will stand out on a publisher's desk, and then on bookstore shelves, you need to be aware of what is already out there, while creating something that reflects your personality.

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Final Steps to Publication

Final Steps is intended to help you start preparing your novel for publication; to finish the job. It is ideal for those who have completed a draft of their manuscript or are in the final stages of completion.

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Edit Your Novel

Edit Your Novel is made up of 16 fortnightly sessions taught by a professional publisher and a literary agent. It is intended to give you the support you need to prepare your novel for publication; to finish the job.

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Writing a Novel: Intensive

The aim of Writing A Novel is simple - to give you the tools and support you need to write the first draft of your novel. Running over three intensive long weekends, with skype meetings in between, students will have the opportunity to be part of the publishing and literary community, with minimum disruption to their regular timetable.

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Get It Written: Bootcamp for your novel

Perhaps you have an idea for a novel, or have started working on your opening chapters, but find that you don't seem to have the time – or the confidence and impetus – to move it forward. This ten-week course, led by award-winning, best-selling novelist Emily Maguire, aims to provide a supportive, structured environment in which to develop your work further and set you well on the way to a first draft.

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The Writers' Workshop

The Writers' Workshop, made up of seven evening sessions plus a concluding full-day workshop, is intended to be an intensely rewarding time of writing and of "new thinking": about your work - and about yourself as a creative person and writer.

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