These Workshops have been made possible with the support of the NSW Regional Arts Country Arts Support Grants www.regionalartnsw.com.au

ALL WORKSHOPS HELD AT BYRON BAY BEACH RESORT UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

All workshops have a max of 25 participants unless stated otherwise.
Concession rate applies to students and NRWC members.

Monday 1st August, 9.30–12.30
$65/$50* W1 Max 10
Sarah Armstrong Finding your unique writing voice
We each have hundreds of stories within us and we each have our own unique writing 'voice'. This supportive and encouraging workshop will help you unearth some of your stories and appreciate your own style of story telling.

Monday 1st August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W3 Max 20
Mungo MacCallum Writing Clearly
This is a workshop for writers who want to improve the clarity of their work. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, Mungo will share some of the simple rules and techniques to assist in getting your point across.

Monday 1st August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W4
Stephen Axelsen Illustrating for Pleasure and Profit
Steven Axelsen is an illustrator with three decades experience in children's publishing. He will describe some of the pleasures, touch on the pains, count the profits and demonstrate the craft in full living colour. Be prepared to sustain stained fingers.

Monday 1st August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W5
Alan Close Healing Words: healing the writer, healing the reader
What’s my story? How can it help others? How can telling my story help me, and help others?

Monday 1st August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W6
Leigh Redhead Starting your first novel
Been threatening to write a book all your life? Waiting for inspiration to strike and the whole thing to pour out in one go? I was and it never got me anywhere. This workshop is full of techniques to help you find the story, get it out of your subconscious and onto the page where it belongs.

Tuesday 2nd August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W7
Mick O’Regan Writing for Radio
Radio is the most intimate medium, where ideas and emotions take on meaning simply through sound. How do you find the words so as to make it work? Broadcaster, Mick O’Regan facilitates a workshop that will explore writing for the radio.

Tuesday 2nd August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W8
Ian Small Alternative Marketing: getting your book out there
This workshop is for authors and aspiring authors, particularly self-published or those who don’t have a publicist. It aims to educate writers about the reality of book distribution and suggests nontraditional methods of reaching readers. See your book as a small business, set realistic goals, plan and prepare your marketing and promotion and be aware of the dangers and pitfalls.

Tuesday 2nd August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W9
Bruno Bouchet Writing Humour: a workshop for adults
This workshop aims to put the fun back into writing. Through word games and fun writing exercises, participants will learn that anyone can write something entertaining.

Tuesday 2nd August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W10
Alana Valentine Verbatim Interviewing
Creating authentic characters for stage and screen. Alana will explore researching your subject for scripts through the use of verbatim interview in order to shape authentic drama. How do you select a subject, find the narrative shape of the material, listen and ask the right questions and mould the material you gather to construct the character’s journey?
Sponsored by AWG

Wednesday 3rd August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W11
Shane Maloney Whodunnit? and why, where and how?
Plot, character, motive and setting: these are the mainstays of crime fiction. They are also essential to successful storytelling of any kind. You don’t need to be a crime buff to learn some tricks of the trade. Exercise your imagination and have fun in this fast and furious creative workshop.

Wednesday 3rd August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W12
Robyn Rowland Sweet Words: valuing the particular in poetry
Beginning with the detail or the particulars we can watch poetry grow in colour, scent, sound, taste and touch. Robyn will analyse her own sense of the particular and use exercises to help participants write their own poetry.

Wednesday 3rd August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W13
Irina Dunn Getting Published: the whole story
This three-hour practical seminar will help you get your writing career off the ground by providing information on publishing, marketing, copyright, agents and any other question you have about writing and publishing.

Wednesday 3rd August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W14
Gerard Windsor Autobiography
Why the current status and popularity of autobiography? What is its relationship with memoir and fiction? What are the ethical problems faced?

Wednesday 3rd August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W15
Sally Neighbour Front line
Sally Neighbour will look at reporting from trouble spots and evolving historical events and the art of "reportage" style writing. She will examine how to fashion a first hand account of history in the making, and how to make remote and complicated events in far-off lands alive, accessible and immediate.

Wednesday 3rd August, 9.30–5.00
$10/$5* RR - Byron Community & Cultural Centre
Theatre: rehearsal for readings
This is a rare opportunity to observe three significant playwrights at work in rehearsing local actors in readings of their work for the Friday night event. Alana Valentine, Shahin Shafaei, Michael Gurr.
Director: George Whaley

Thursday 4th August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W17 Max 20
Michael Gurr Writing for stage
A freewheeling session from nuts and bolts questions to keeping the faith in your idea when surrounded by those who know better! This is a chance to air the practical as well as the artistic questions.

Thursday 4th August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W18
Deb Cox Making Imaginary Worlds
Convincing in the Script Deb Cox will be drawing on her drama series, in development, to look at the creation of fictional worlds for the screen.

Thursday 4th August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W20
Alison Lester & Frané Lessac Make your own picture book:
getting published isn't everything! Suddenly, the process of book making is no longer a mystery, but an achievable and enjoyable goal.

Thursday 4th August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W21
Dr Bill Metcalf Writing Social History that Gets Published
Good social history is both limited and enriched by ‘the facts’. Writing social history is a creative, artistic, literary endeavour–not a mere recitation of facts. The workshop will explore collecting and indexing archival and oral accounts; all the ethics and legalities involved as well as costing and funding, presentation, publishing and distribution options.

Thursday 4th August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W22
Brian Caswell Writing for young audiences: novels, screenplays and short stories
Many of the creative aspects and elements peculiar to writing for teenagers are common whatever the form. It’s really about understanding the effects of the technological environment on their perception of narrative and structuring story accordingly.

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Friday 5th August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W23
Stephen Muecke Fictocritical Writing: writing outside literature
Innovative writing bends the rules of genre & style. ‘Fictocritical writing’ is driven less by the romance of the individual creation and more by the materials thrown up in the writer’s encounter with everyday life.

Friday 5th August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W2
Simon Higgins Thrills or Chills?
Simon will unveil thriller writing for Young Adults. Aspire to publish SF, adventure or crime? This will be a practical and inspiring view on the arts of foreshadowing, cliche avoidance, action writing, suspense control and even ‘getting industry savvy’.

Saturday 6th August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W24
Julianne Schultz Essays, extended reportage and literary journalism
This workshop will explore and develop the techniques and approaches used in these genres. Participants will consider the unique elements of this style of writing, the characteristics of a successful piece and consider the pitfalls. You will be required to do some reading in advance.

Saturday 6th August, 1.30–4.30
$45/$30* W25
Margaret Somerville It’s About Place
This workshop will explore the practice of body/place writing. It will discuss using this body/place writing in a process of assemblage – a making, in the form of a scrapbook, from different sources of place material.

Sunday 7th August, 9.30–12.30
$25/$15* W26
Bruno Bouchet Writing Humour: a workshop for teenagers
Leave your tortured artistic soul in your wind swept garret, because this workshop aims to put the fun back into writing. We’ll explore: what makes us laugh, why it makes us laugh, what is humour, source material, different forms of comedy. Come prepared with some examples of what makes you laugh.

Sunday 7th August, 9.30–12.30
$45/$30* W27
Graham Nunn A Haiku Journey
How to write and enjoy haiku. Some basic rules and techniques for writing haiku and getting published.

Workshop Sponsor "REGIONAL ARTS"