June 1, 2016 – June 1, 2016 Level 2 Map and Directions | Register Description: Join SA Writers Centre team and Life Member, Sean Williams, on Wednesday 1 June for a members get together and book swap event. Just bring a book or two you want to swap and a gold coin donation, and we’ll […]

Katie Spain joins us as our Writer in Residence and we took her aside to have a quick – but meaningful – Q&A with her. Katie will be hosting The Art of Feature Writing workshop in June. If you were a supermarket item, what would you be and why? Froot Loops. The name says it […]

June 5, 2016 – July 31, 2016 Level 2 Map and Directions | Register Description: with Kevin O’Brien This is now full. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email [email protected]. Bring your fiction writing and evaluation skills to the next level in this intense but friendly focus group, convened […]

Aimee Knight: Admin & Membership Coordinator If you were a supermarket item, what would you be and why? A 750g bag of San Remo spirals, because you are what you eat in one sitting in the dark.   If you could be a super hero, what power would you like to have? To vaporise misogynists […]

Here’s a snapshot at a few of the things you will experience if you come along to our Writing Boot Camp for Teens. MAKING MUSIC WITH WORDS Many believe a writer’s voice to be unique, innate, and therefore uncontrolled. This two hour workshop will focus on the controlled and deliberate craft of making music with […]

by Emma McEwin Creative non fiction is an exciting genre. I love finding creative and interesting ways to write stories about real people and things. Like the mystery box challenge on Masterchef, your task is to combine a jumble of seemingly unrelated ingredients to make a meaningful dish. The ingredients are like the facts of […]

By Georgina Chadderton Hello there! My name is Gina; I like to watch television, drink my tea without milk and draw auto-bio comics. What do you do with yourself? Auto-bio(graphical) comics (writing stories about yourself) are my favourite to write as I get to write from what I know and experience. When I was younger […]

In exciting news, we are giving one person the chance to win one of our First Feedback service during April. Simply sign up for our Getting Started or Poetry Play workshop during April, 2016 and you will be in with a chance to win! Must be a financial participant of the abovenamed workshops and a […]

Meet our current Writer in Residence, Dean Mayes. Dean took some time to answer some questions about his writing so we could get to know him better. What is your typical writing process? I have been very much a “panster” over the course of my career. I tend to brainstorm ideas to a certain point […]

Adelaide Writers’ Week may be over but you can still relive the literary glory thanks to ABC 891 Adelaide. At the 2016 Adelaide Writers’ Week, Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff captured the insightful and inspiring stories of 16 national and international authors. Monday February 29 Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies Simon Winchester, Pacific Stephen Daisley, Coming […]

Here are some great interviews with some of the visiting authors to Adelaide Writers’ Week: Joanna Walsh, a renown British writer and illustrator, who writes for The Guardian, The New Statesman and The National, is in Adelaide for Writers’ Week. Check out her interview on Radio Adelaide here. 05 Mar 2016 In Adelaide as a guest […]

Thousands of podcasts are being downloaded every day and there are podcasts on almost every topic. It is predicted that all cars will be connected to the internet in less than ten years time, which means the growth and demand for podcasts will be like nothing we’ve ever seen before Did you know that Apple […]

By Jillian Schedneck Travel memoir writing isn’t what you typically read in the Travel section of a newspaper, or in many glossy magazines. When you write a travel memoir, you aren’t compelled to lavish superlatives upon a beach resort or trendy city. You don’t have to recommend the restaurants where you ate, the museums you […]

By Sarah Gates There are two types of writers in the world: plotters and pansters (which, for the uninitiated, stands for a person who writes ‘by the seat of their pants’). Apparently. Okay, so no two plotters are exactly alike—and vice versa. That’s why there’s so much fun to be had on the Internet, learning […]

By Sarah Gates Being funny on the page is very different to cracking jokes in real life. It’s a skill that can be learned and practiced. You don’t need a natural knack for one liners or comedic timing. Situational humour I think it was Oscar Wilde that once said, humour occurs in two situations: Where […]