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With 50+ online and self-paced courses led by award-winning authors, there’s something for every writer.

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Rebecca Starford

30-Day Writing Boot Camp

Are you looking to kickstart a new long-form writing project? With a mix of written and video lessons plus targeted writing exercises, this course will set you on the path towards stronger writing.
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Claire Thomas, Rebecca Starford, Hannah Kent, Emily Bitto and Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Writing a Novel Kit

Have you always wanted to write a novel but not sure where to start? Then this five-course kit is for you! Learn how to map out your novel, develop your characters, setting and dialogue and enrich your writing craft.
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Sophie Cunningham

Writing Creative Non-Fiction Essays

In this unique course all about crafting compelling and persuasive essays, you’ll explore how you can find an emotional connection to the facts, for both the writer and the reader.
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Sara M Saleh

Writing Memoir through Poetry

Join award-winning poet and novelist Sara M Saleh on this unique, practice-based course designed to build up a collection of poems that draw directly from the fragments of your own memory and personal experiences.
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Ennis Ćehić

Writing Fiction in Absurd Times

An instructive and playful guide to capturing the strangeness of reality.​ Join highly acclaimed short fiction writer Ennis Ćehić in this deep dive into one of literature’s strangest, most compelling modes of storytelling.
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Jock Serong

How to Write a Gripping Plot

Award-winning Jock Serong is a writer with real literary chops and the ability to write genuine page-turners—a rare combination in any writer. Join him on this dynamic and insightful course all about shaping plot and structure in long-form fiction.
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Hannah Kent

Writing Historical Fiction

This course explains how research can be used to strengthen characterisation, setting and plot, and teaches techniques and approaches to avoid burdening your fiction with superfluous historical information or anachronism.
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Julie Koh

Structuring Short Stories

Designed to assist writers who are thinking about structure in short fiction, as well as those who want to diagnose and rectify structural issues in their drafts.
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Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Building Suspense in Crime Thrillers

Whether you’ve got an idea or a completed draft, the lessons and exercises in this course will help you improve your understanding of how suspense works, what narrative drive actually is, and how you can use these concepts to hook readers.
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Rebecca Giggs

Structuring the Non-Fiction Book

Through a series of reflective insights, close readings and writing exercises, you will explore with an award-winning non-fiction writer how to best tell your stories.
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Ennis Ćehić

Writing Very Short Stories

Learn how to craft punchy, sharp and impactful stories in less than 750 words. By the end, you’ll walk away with your own collection of Very Short Stories.
$119
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Sisonke Msimang

Life Writing

With a particular focus on memoir and personal essays, this workshop will teach you how to approach writing about deep, personal and often intimate experiences for a public audience.
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Fiona Wright

Writing Personal Essays

This course is designed to address some of the most common uncertainties around writing personal essays, and to offer a number of approaches to getting started in this exciting and challenging form.
$189
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Claire Thomas

Finding Ideas for Fiction

This course is for people who think they have no ideas, as well as those who have many ideas but cannot work out how to best pursue them. Ideas are a confidence trick, and this course hopes to offer you both inspiration and practical strategies so that your ideas might become fiction.
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Emily Bitto

Crafting Beautiful Sentences

Learn how to write more freely and imaginatively, avoid cliché, understand the effects of various sentence-level choices on your prose style and edit your work and the work of others more effectively.
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Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford

Beginners Guide to Publication

Join two award-winning writers in this beginner-friendly and insightful course on the steps it takes to prepare your work for publication.
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Jock Serong, J.P. Pomare, Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Crime & Thriller Foundations

Save on three courses from Australia’s best crime & thriller writers!
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Sophie Cunningham, Fiona Wright

Mastering the Creative Non-Fiction Essay

In these two popular courses from acclaimed authors, you'll learn to experiment with composition, structure and voice in your essay-writing, utilise different strategies for openings and introductions, generate ideas for new essays and how to use yourself in service of the story.
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Evelyn Araluen, Andy Jackson, Sara M Saleh

Poetry Masterclass

Save 22%! Three courses by award-winning poets designed to teach you a number of approaches to writing poetry, including techniques to deepen and expand your own poetic voice, poetic fundamentals like line and syntax and how to collaborate with, and be inspired by, other texts.
$395
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Sophie Cunningham, Fiona Wright, Bridie Jabour, Jenny Valentish and Jennifer Mills

Non-Fiction Kit

Interested in learning about the different forms of essays and how to get your writing published? Then this five-course kit is for you!
$449
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Julie Koh, Claire Thomas, Alice Bishop, Cate Kennedy and Laura Elvery

Short Story Kit

This special kit includes six unique courses with talented and experienced fiction writers. Each course covers various aspects of short story craft including structure, setting, plot, characters and voice.
$449
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Liam Pieper, Rebecca Starford, Jenny Valentish, Fiona Wright and Sisonke Msimang

Memoir Kit

Want to share your story but not sure where to start? This five-course kit covers both long and short-form memoir, how to find your unique voice and techniques for sharing your story.
$449
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Claire Thomas, Rebecca Starford, Hannah Kent, Emily Bitto and Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Writing a Novel Kit

Have you always wanted to write a novel but not sure where to start? Then this five-course kit is for you! Learn how to map out your novel, develop your characters, setting and dialogue and enrich your writing craft.
$449
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Angela Meyer, Kate Goldsworthy, Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford

Pathway to Publication Kit

This kit brings together three online courses from some of Australia's most experienced editors and writers—each drawing on years of industry insight to guide you through the publication process from the inside out.
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How to Edit Your Own Work

If you’ve ever been interested in what the editing process entails and how it could benefit your writing, this course is for you.

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Student Review, Crafting Beautiful Sentences with Emily Bitto

‘Crafting Beautiful Sentences seemed like the logical place to start this new phase of my writing career! Now I look back at my earlier writing and wish I had done this course ten years ago.’

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Student Review, Writing Historical Fiction with Hannah Kent

‘Highly recommended for any emerging writers who dream of writing a novel one day...informative, inspiring and highly engaging. I am most grateful for the excellent recommendations and resources.’

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Student Review, Writing Very Short Stories with Ennis Ćehić

‘This is a well-planned and presented course for anyone daring to foray into Very Short Stories. The course yielded much glorious information and not some few surprises. Engaging, informative, inspiring.’

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Student Review, Writing Creative Non-Fiction Essays with Sophie Cunningham

‘Engaging, eye-opening and easy to follow—Sophie’s workshop is a must, not just for essayists but for writers of all genres.’

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Student Review, Writing Personal Essays with Fiona Wright

‘Well structured, easy to follow and full of helpful information. I found the small exercises she set challenging and fun. They really inspired me to write about one of my personal experiences in a way that can be shared and enjoyed by others.’

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Student Review, Structuring Poetry with Andy Jackson

‘I really enjoyed, was challenged by and grew my writing from every aspect of this course. Andy Jackson is a natural teacher, and I loved his gentle yet strong guidance, and the exercises were the best prompts I’ve seen.’

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