With our intensive courses recently on a break and school holidays occurring, we asked our tutors about their writing practice during ‘downtime’.
We are delighted to introduce Kym Tyzack, who is the recipient of the 2024 scholarship for Writing the YA Novel.
Novelist and tutor Alice Robinson tells us how she kickstarts her novel writing process and where the magic lies.
Learning to prioritise writing time has helped 2023 scholarship recipient Munira Tabassum Ahmed complete a first draft of her novel.
Judith Bishop won the 2023 Scholarship for Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book. Here she reflects on the program.
Writing the Essay course leader Eda Gunaydin tells us how she came to essay writing and how the form allows a writer to decentre the self.
Course leader Ashley Kalagian Blunt tells us how she came to be a crime writer and why crime is an enduring genre.
Novelist and tutor, Ruby Porter reflects on how she first started to write and how she developed her own skills through study.
Faber Writing Academy is seeking Expressions of Interest from novelists across Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand.
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.
