Back by popular demand, our scintillating series of Adelaide Writers’ Week masterclasses returns in March. Hosted by revered international authors, this is your chance to learn from the world’s finest writers, right here in Adelaide. Join copyright renegade Cory Doctorow for a fiction masterclass on […]
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Plot twist: say ‘hey!’ to Writers SA
We’re delighted to finally reveal that SA Writers Centre is now Writers SA. To complement our new name – and our new home in the Institute Building – we have a new look, new partners and venues, and a refreshed purpose. So what better time to launch our Summer 2018 […]
Upcoming Events – downloadable quick guide
Events and Workshops in Adelaide at SA Writers Centre Here’s your quick downloadable and shareable pdf events and workshop guide: Events and Workshops – August Events & Workshops – September
WIN FEEDBACK ON YOUR WRITING
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 […]
Omnibus: a participatory writing project coming to regional South Australia
KEEP ACROSS THE PROJECT ON OUR DIGITAL WRITER IN RESIDENCE BLOG In March 2016 David Chapple, Writing Development Manager, SA Writers Centre, will be on the road to deliver a new writing and storytelling project to communities, artists and artsworkers across South Australia. Supported by Arts South Australia’s Community Arts […]
The Architecture of Nonfiction
By Danielle Clode Writing well requires much the same set of skills no matter whether we are writing fiction or nonfiction, but the success of fiction often rests in part on the architecture of the whole story or book. In nonfiction it is structure at the level of the sentence […]
New Program July – September
We’re very excited to release our third quarter program for 2015. It has all your favourites such as the Fiction Clinic, Three Thursdays, TWELVE and Member Monthly plus some great new stuff, including interstate visitors such as Toni Jordan, Mark Tredinnick, Mark Dapin and Arnold Zable. Download the full […]
New Program – April to June 2015
We are thrilled to bring you our latest program for April to June. We’ve already had a terrific first quarter of 2015 with almost every workshop and event booking out. This program sees a whole range of exciting workshops and events for every type of writer including Feature Article Writing, […]
January – March Program 2015
Program of Writing Workshops and Events We’re very excited to present our first quarter writing program and want to encourage you to take advantage of the wonderful writing workshops and events we have on offer. You’ll be able to choose from a range of wonderful learning and development experiences including […]
Unpublished Manuscript Starter Self-publishing Prize
ANNOUNCING: Unpublished Manuscript Starter Self-publishing Prize
Luke, Lizzie, Darcy and Darth Vader: lessons from film
By Cameron Raynes You’ve got a rough idea of the novel or short story you want to write. Or you’ve written one, but it doesn’t quite hang together or compel the reader to keep turning the page. What do you do? Is it possible that methods and approaches to writing […]
You Can’t Judge a Book By its Cover… or Can You?
By Tracy Marsh There is an old saying that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Publishers think differently: You might not judge a book by its cover, but you sure sell a book by its cover. And yes 75% of readers use the cover as a deciding factor […]
July – September 2014 Program
Check out the full program of workshops, masterclasses and events that we have coming up during July and September.
Five Short Story Writing Tips
David Chapple shares his top five short story writing tips: 1. For me plot is usually just an excuse to push a character around. If you develop a good, three dimensional character the plot often writes itself. 2. A character doesn’t have to be sympathetic to be engaging. If they […]
Robin Hemley Creative Nonfiction Workshop (part two)
By Stephen Atkinson About a quarter of the way through his workshop on creative non-fiction, renowned writer and teacher of writing Robin Hemley revealed the six questions he gets all of his students to ask of their work: 1) What is it about? 2) What is it really about? 3) […]