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Mid-year scholarship information session

w/ Deborah Robertson, Ingrid Horrocks, Vivian Pham, Luke Horton and J.S. Breukelaar

In this special free interactive information session, join our tutors from around the country as they discuss what to expect from their courses and how to best prepare your scholarship application.

Monday 12 May, 6:30pm – 7:30pm (AEST)

FREE


For one night only, join authors and tutors Deborah Robertson (Writing a Creative Nonfiction Book), Ingrid Horrocks (Writig a Creative Nonfiction Book Online), Luke Horton (Writing a Novel – Melbourne), Vivian Pham (Writing a Novel Online) and J.S. Breukelaar (Writing a Speculative Fiction Novel) as they talk about their courses, exploring topics covered and the guest speakers you might encounter, how the Faber Writing Anthology leads students to success, and how they will help you get as close as possible to finishing a draft of your manuscript across the year.

They will also talk you through putting together a compelling application for the upcoming scholarship round – how to grab their attention and make your project sing. What should you focus on in telling us why this is a story only you can tell? Together, they will talk about how much time you might need to put aside to write outside of class and the bonds that develop between students, often leading to the formation of lifelong writing groups.

This is an extremely rare opportunity to spend an hour with four of Australia’s most exciting writers and brilliant teachers. Come prepared with questions you’ve long wanted to ask about studying writing! Places are free.

 


Writers you'll be working with:

Deborah Robertson

Deborah Robertson is a West-Australian born writer and teacher, now based in Melbourne. Her first book, Proudflesh, won The Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award, and her first novel, Careless, received the Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers and the Colin Roderick Award. It was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Age…

Luke Horton

Luke Horton is a writer, critic and creative writing lecturer from Naarm. His debut novel, The Fogging, was highly commended for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and published by Scribe in 2020. His latest novel, Time Together, was published by Scribe in March 2025. The former editor of The Lifted Brow…

J.S. Breukelaar

J.S. Breukelaar is an Australian-American author living in Sydney. She is the author of three novels, most recently The Bridge, and two collections of short stories, in addition to essays, poems and fiction appearing in numerous publications and several Years Bests. Her work has won or been a finalist for multiple national and international awards,…

Vivian Pham

Vivian Pham is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist, and poet from southwestern Sydney. In high school she wrote a novel called The Coconut Children, which was published in March 2020 by Penguin Random House.  In 2021 she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists and she won the Matt Richell Award…

Ingrid Horrocks

Ingrid Horrocks is a poet, essayist, travel writer and fiction writer from Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington. Her most recent book, Where We Swim (Te Herenga Waka UP and UQP, 2021), a blend of memoir, essay and nature writing, was described by the Australian Book Review as a “luminous” “work of wondrous depth.” Her non-fiction essays have appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter,…

Course outline

One hour information session to be hosted on ZOOM, including time for Q&A.

How to Book

To receive a Zoom link for this free information session, please register your details via the following link: