TutorsDr Sian Prior

This eight-week course will set you on the journey of writing memoir. In a creative and supportive environment, Writing Memoir will offer you methods of accessing memories and recognising their inherent shape, finding your writing voice, bringing the details to life, creating the lived reality of your experience on the page and finding its structure.

TutorsEmily Bitto

Stay the Course is an exclusive online program designed for alumni of Writing a Novel (of any graduating year) to help students keep up momentum, maintain a sense of community and maximise their writing time. This is a chance to stay on track with your word count and finish your manuscript, ahead of submitting to an agent or publisher.

TutorsLauren Chater

In an intimate group of ten writers, Lauren Chater will guide you through a workshopping process designed to strengthen the opening chapter of your work-in-progress, at the level of the line, the paragraph, and the story, giving you skills you can continue to apply to your manuscript as a whole.

TutorsShivaun Plozza and guests

YA fiction is amongst the bestselling genres in Australia, read avidly by teenagers and adults alike—but how do you start writing for this highly engaged community of readers? In this special course, you will carefully study YA’s complex set of rules and conventions, while working towards completing a full first draft of your manuscript.

TutorsRebecca Giggs, Fiona Wright and guests

For emerging nonfiction writers ready to leap in and get serious, this course begins with a focus on the creative essay and builds towards core competencies essential for embarking on a nonfiction book project. We will take your writing from the planning stage, through chapter by chapter drafting, to fine tuning an essay for submission to a magazine/ journal or sketching out a detailed proposal for a publisher to consider.

TutorsPeggy Frew and guests

For emerging novelists ready to dive in and make the commitment to complete a full manuscript, this rigorous course will guide you through the process of executing your novel, developing essential skills in writing and composition, as well as establishing a dedicated writing practice.

TutorsDavina Bell and guests including Anna McFarlane and Beau Wylie

Words and pictures combine in Writing for Kids. Packed with industry guests and including the chance to collaborate with a professional illustrator, this lively program will give you the inside information you need to stand out from the crowd in the field of children's literature.

TutorsNell Pierce

After reading your full manuscript and providing you with a reader's report, author and former agent Nell Pierce will lead you through the process of re-drafting your novel, by focusing on key ideas and strategies from plotting to characterisation and style. Over six monthly sessions you’ll workshop your re-drafts and stress-test the decisions you’ve made, exploring what works and what could be made stronger in your novel.

TutorsKaaron Warren, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Lloyd Jones, Mireille Juchau and others

Project plan your manuscript with one-on-one consultations with a leading writer. You will be paired with a leading author for a series of fortnightly one-on-one consultation sessions to discuss your work, and help you negotiate the roadblocks and challenges you might be facing.