We are delighted to celebrate the recipients of the 2024 Faber Writing Scholarships for Writing a Novel  and Writing Creative Nonfiction.

Illustrator Beau Wylie tells us how he approaches working on a children’s book in collaboration with an author and publisher.

Neha Kale reflects on her scholarship experience in Writing Creative Nonfiction and the insights she discovered.

 Patti Miller wanted to write as soon as she learnt to read. Now she shares her experience to help others develop skills, ideas and focus.

We asked our Start to Write course leaders about the moment they knew they had to start to write and what stood in their way.

We asked Emma Hislop why she loves short stories, who she’s reading and what to expect from her new course.

Eleanor Elliott Thomas tells us how taking the ‘Writing a Novel’ course in 2022 helped her writing ‘in every respect’.

As the 2023 Writing a Novel Scholarship recipients come to the end of their course they reflect on what has changed in their writing and perhaps, their lives.

We asked Rebecca Harkins-Cross to tell more about her new course and to introduce the ‘broad church’ of  essay writing as it appears today.

Learn a little more about Maame Blue, course leader for our new program Writing Romance and Realistic Intimacy.

Introducing writers Lauren Aimee Curtis and Harrison Christian,  two new mentors now available for fortnightly consultations on writing projects.

In 2021 Magdalena McGuire won a scholarship place in ‘Writing a Novel’ in Melbourne and it changed everything.

We are excited to announce that Fiona Kelly McGregor will join Eleanor Limprecht to teach Writing a Novel (Daytime) in Sydney.

We’re looking forward to welcoming our two latest scholarship recipients when their courses commence in July 2023.

We asked Writing Crime Fiction tutors R.W.R. McDonald and Katherine Kovacic how they got into crime fiction in the first place.

After writing 50,000 words, a novel manuscript can be too familiar and improvements hard to imagine. What to do?

We asked Deborah Robertson to update us on her course Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book and essential nonfiction reading for writers.

Our new Sydney course leader for Writing a Novel tells us a little about her experience as a writer and a teacher.

We send congratulations and a warm welcome to the recipients of our first ever Writing About Culture scholarships.

We asked tutors Kaaron Warren and J.S. Breukelaar to tell us about their new course Writing Speculative Fiction.