Feature writing for magazines and newspapers
Wednesday evening classes with Mat NottWednesday evenings (once a week) for five weeks
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Fee: $395 (includes GST)
Next available course:
ONLINE Feature Writing with Valerie Khoo/Pamela Wilson
Time: Whenever suits you
Fee: $395 (includes GST)
Click here for more info.
The next available course starts the week beginning:
Would you like to get paid to write?
- Do you want to write articles for magazines and newspapers?
- Do you like the sound of being a freelance writer?
- Would you like to interview celebrities and fascinating people?
- If so, your journey starts right here ...
What you will learn from this course
Feature writing for magazines and newspapers is one of the Sydney Writers' Centre's most popular courses. Students often end up published in major publications, sometimes even before they complete the course.If you like the idea of writing articles for magazines and newspapers, this course is for you. It suits first-time writers or anyone who wants to brush up on their writing skills. The course will teach you about:
- which ideas work - and where to get them
- understanding the magazine/news market
- different types of feature articles
- how to research, structure and write a feature
- what editors want from a writer
- how to pitch your article or idea to a magazine and sell it!
This course is ideal for people who want to write articles. These could include feature articles about travel, lifestyle, politics, sport, entertainment, parenting, human interest – and much more.
Students have been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Life!, BRW, Notebook, The Sun-Herald, Australian Associated Press, Practical Parenting, Management Today, Australian Financial Review, City Weekly, Herald Sun, Home Beautiful and countless other magazines and newspapers.Find out what past students say about this writing course here.
This writing course is usually held at the Sydney Writers' Centre in our professional harbourside training rooms.
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Who presents this course?
Pamela Wilson has worked as a freelance journalist for the past seven years. Her articles regularly appear in Medical Observer, Reader’s Digest and Health Smart. She has also contributed to various publications including Men’s Health, Good Health and Medicine, Australian Parents, Travel Vacations and Ninemsn online.In her 18 years in journalism Pamela has worked at the Gold Coast Bulletin, AAP and The Daily Telegraph in a variety of positions covering areas as diverse as medicine, politics, health and family issues, education, travel, books, lifestyle and men’s and women’s issues.
Sue
White is a freelance writer whose work has featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue Australia, Travel + Leisure (Australia), Sun Herald Travel, Women’s Health, Vogue Entertaining + Travel, CNN Traveller, various ABC outlets, Green Living, G magazine and numerous other publications in both Australia and overseas.
Despite delving into the world of freelancing as far back as her high school days, Sue wore a variety of writing-oriented career hats before deciding that she’d got it right at 17 after all. Today, she particularly uses her writing to explore her interests in environment, career and wellbeing issues. Sue’s also chuffed she now gets paid to appease her continually itchy feet through travel writing: an indulgence that sees her regularly journeying to inspiring and interesting places across the globe in the name of a good story.
Holly Nott is a journalist who has covered everything from shark attacks to federal elections, terrorism trials to snowboarding holidays. She has spent almost a decade as a journalist with Australia's news agency, Australian Associated Press. She has held a range of senior roles with the news outfit, and until welcoming her first child in Februrary, was Sydney Bureau Chief, with responsibility for one of AAP's biggest, busiest newsrooms. Prior to that, Holly spent two years as Perth Bureau Chief, and was chief of staff in the Sydney Bureau.
Holly has worked for regional, suburban and national news publications and has also spent time as a sub-editor and freelancer since earning her Bachelor of Arts Communications degree more than 15 years ago. After a long commitment to welcoming cadets and interns into her newsrooms, Holly recently began tutoring UTS journalism students and now teaches at the Sydney Writers' Centre.
Mat Nott has worked as a freelance and staff journalist
in Australia and internationally for more than 20 years. He has
recently returned to Australia from his base in Rome to act as a roving
editor with Cumberland-Courier Newspapers – part of News Ltd. It’s a
role that sees him occupying the editor’s chair at mastheads all over
Sydney.
As a successful freelance, he has written on crime and travel for The Sydney Morning Herald and been published in The Sun Herald, Woman’s Day, Australasian Post and Rugby League Week among others.
Vanessa Waters is an award-winning writer with over 15 years experience in the publishing industry. Since graduating with a BA in Communications from UTS she has worked in both newspapers and magazines, cutting her teeth on titles such as TV HITS, Girlfriend, Teen Hit, New Idea, That's Life!, Home Beautiful, SUNDAY Magazine, Marie Claire, Body + Soul and New Woman.
She is a seasoned lecturer, a contributing author of a women's anthology (released through Adams Media in the USA) and the author of Secrets of Our Success, published through Random House.
Course dates and fees
Wednesday evening classes with Mat NottWednesday evenings (once a week) for five weeks
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Fee: $395 (includes GST)
Next available course:
ONLINE Feature Writing with Valerie Khoo/Pamela Wilson
Time: Whenever suits you
Fee: $395 (includes GST)
Click here for more info.
The next available course starts the week beginning:
| Rave reviews about Feature Writing for Magazines and Newspapers Stage 1: "The small class sizes gave us more personal attention and opportunity to chat with other classmates. Judy Skatssoon is a fantastic teacher with a wealth of subject knowledge and experience. Within a month of finishing the course, I had my first story printed as a full page spread in the Sun Herald! Since then, I have had further success with my stories getting picked up by a variety of other publications." - Cindy Bingley-Pullin "Having had an idea for an article mingling about in my brain for months, but not knowing how to write it, I enrolled in Valerie Khoo's course. The sessions, which were entertaining as well as informative, equipped me with the know-how and incentive to finish my article; and it got published!" - Andrew Wood "Every bit of information that was provided was practical. Valerie's passion for writing was clearly evident and her enthusiasm to help others realise their dreams was awesome. LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT. "I would highly recommend it. I could not have imagined that I would have got so much out of it in such a small time frame." - Ana Vavdinos "You inspired and motivated me to believe that a freelance writing career is definitely possible. I am now a published writer! The first article I ever submitted was published in The Sydney Morning Herald. Now, a few months later, I am the web editor for mychildmagazine.com.au. Thank you for your ongoing support, inspiration and encouragement. "Thanks again for all your enthusiasm. It really is my dream job and I am still pinching myself." - Marija Castellari "This course really reaffirmed my passion for writing and I would recommend it to anyone interested in journalism. It tells you everything you need to know about becoming a successful freelance journalist and helps budding journalists avoid some common pitfalls when starting out. During my interviews with the Australian Financial Review, the fact that I had done even a short course, helped show that I was committed to journalism." - Katja Buhrer, who got a job as a journalist with the Australian Financial Review within three weeks of finishing the course. "I completed the Feature Writing for Newspapers & Magazines course back in January 2007. After a job change, a move to Queensland and a redundancy I recently got out my course notes and decided to finally focus (properly) on my dream of freelance writing. After a few weeks I'm happy to say I've been published in the Courier Mail! After emailing a short article on spec, I was commissioned to expand it - and it wound up getting a full page and colour pictures!! I have also been commissioned by Mother & Baby magazine to expand on an article I wrote as part of the course. It's all very exciting! "Your insistence that "there's plenty of work out there if you want it" was key in motivating me to send out my articles, and I just wanted to say thanks for a great course!!" - Stephanie Allen |
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