Katherine Boo will be a special guest speaker in our new course Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book with Deborah Robertson.
We asked award-winning journalist Oscar Schwartz to tell us more about his forthcoming Faber Writing Academy course.
Author Deborah Robertson on why she’s working with Faber Writing Academy on a new non-fiction course for writers in Melbourne.
The Faber Writing Academy is delighted to announce the recipient of the 2022 Faber Writing Scholarship for Writing Creative Nonfiction.
The Faber Writing Academy is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2022 Faber Writing A Novel Scholarships.
In 2021 Louis Decrevel was on the verge of quitting as a writer for children but then found a community. What happened next?
Brooke Scobie writes about a year that was challenging but built confidence and made her ‘a brand-new shiny writer’.
Jane O’Sullivan, 2021 Scholarship recipient on a lifetime’s supply of practical fiction writing techniques.
One of our 2021 scholarship recipients for Writing a Novel in Melbourne reflects on her year studying with Sophie Cunningham and Emily Bitto.
James Bradley’s new course Writing Environmental Crisis shows how fiction can explore the impacts of climate change and reimagine the world.
Songwriter Jack Colwell joined Anwen Crawford’s course Writing About Art and came away with a new reading group.
Apply to join Kickstart Your Novel with Pip Smith for free. For writers in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Pip Smith was a Faber Writing Scholarship winner and now leads our program Kickstart Your Novel: The Opening Chapter and Beyond.
Cate Carlton has recently died yet is somehow able to watch her family from the afterlife. In the Quiet is a striking debut.
The eloquence of buzz phrases like ‘representation matters’ didn’t exist 25 years ago when I was a wog girl growing up in the bush.
The Serpent’s Secret, written by Sayantani Dasgupta, is a humorous, action-packed middle-grade fantasy debut.
Like all of my favourite stories, NovioletBulawayo’s We Need New Names, opened the door to a world vastly different to the one I inhabit.
Tessa Feggans has worked on three editions of the Faber Writing Anthology – but is now a commissioning editor.
As the 2021 classes in Writing a Novel Stage 1 near completion we asked our scholarship winners what they’ve learnt and what’s next.
Gabriella Kelly-Davies’ biography Breaking through the pain barrier has been signed by Hawkeye Books in Queensland.
