Novel writing workshop
5-month course (evening classes)

If you've already done Creative Writing - Stage 1 or have some experience in creative writing and want to hone your craft, the Novel Writing workshop will help you enhance your skills and make your novel become a reality.

This course suits people who have a definite project on which they have already done some work. The Novel Writing workshop is ideal for people who want to develop longer pieces of work or a series of short stories.

Why is the course over a few months?
The class meets approximately every six weeks. This means participants have a block of time to develop their work further before each session.

The Novel Writing workshop will help you identify problems in your own writing and find solutions for those problems. It will also help you learn to critique manuscripts, including their own.

Workshopping a range of manuscripts will inevitably throw up a wide range of issues for writers, from voice and characterisation down to grammar and punctuation.

Now that you have learnt theory, tools and techniques to use in your creative writing, it's time to take your writing to the next level.

Workshopping and feedback
Over the five months, participants will have at least two opportunities to present their writing for feedback in the class.

The presenter will also critique each work individually and provide in-depth written feedback/editing suggestions on your piece at the end of the five months.

This Novel Writing workshop is presented by Dr Pamela Freeman - author of 18 books, the most recent of which, Blood Ties (Book 1 of the Castings trilogy) is being published in the US, UK and Germany as well as Australia. The second book, Deep Water, will be published in August 2008. She also has a new children’s book, Victor’s Challenge, coming out in July in the UK and Australia.

Pamela started as a children’s writer, and many of her books have been shortlisted for the State Literary Awards, the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards, the Koala Awards and the Wilderness Society Environment Awards. Pamela – who is also an accomplished script writer – has taught creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney for many years.

This writing course is held at the Sydney Writers' Centre in the evenings.

Course dates and fees
Course fee: $450
Evening classes held approximately every six weeks
6.30pm-8.30pm

Participants should be able to attend on the following dates:

Session 1: Tuesday 11 March 2008
Session 2: Tuesday 22 April 2008
Session 3: Tuesday 17 June 2008
Session 4: Tuesday 29 July 2008
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