Monday 23 July &
Tuesday 24 July
10am-4pm
$180/$150* CODE W1 Max 20
Sarah Armstrong & Alan Close
From Woe to Go: write a short story in two days
Join Sarah Armstrong and Alan Close for a two day writing marathon. Find out how to take the germ of an idea and turn it into a story. Come with an idea or let Sarah and Alan help you uncover one on the first morning. The workshop is fun, practical and hands
on. You’ll leave with a completed story and the tools to write more.

Monday 23 July
9.30am-12.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W2
Howard Whelan Writing that Sells!
Australian Geographic’s founding editor gives priceless advice on how to research your story, how to take and
maintain notes and conduct research,
how and where to sell your story ideas and the all important writing and editing of your story. Perfect for anyone with an enquiring mind and a yen to get beneath the skin of journalism.

Monday 23 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W3
Vanessa Gorman The Heart of the Matter: finding the molten core
of your life story So you have an extraordinary event that has shaped your life? Perhaps it
is a series of amazing anecdotes? Where to now? Just as in many works of fiction, what will keep the reader gripped is a strong story and a character on a journey of discovery. This workshop is about finding the deeper, defining story that will drive the narrative of your memoir and help you find its structure. It is about focusing on the heart of the matter; the wisdom
and insight you have to share, and letting this quest for self discovery
become the guiding organisational principle of your plot. A practical
workshop for anyone serious about writing their life, and for those looking for a way to begin.

Tuesday 24 July
9.30am-12.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W4
Candida Baker Fuel for the Fire
Have you ever wanted to unleash the power of your imagination? If you want to write, where do you start? In this power filled workshop, author, photographer and editor Candida Baker will lead you through the labyrinth and show you how to create character, plot
and subtext. The Who, What, Where, When and Why of writing, whatever
your genre. Let loose the fire within.

Tuesday 24 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W5
Catherine Dyson Tell me Your Story: non fiction and the art of spinning yarns into books
People love to talk about their lives and are never too far from revealing
their true feelings. As the memory of an experience begins to simmer, stirring up what they felt, thought and
concluded about that experience follows
naturally. So the art of this style of non fiction is in the dedicated listening, gentle inquiry, paying attention to detail, and not ignoring the tangents. With this approach people will
tell you unique stories full of character and dramatic highs and lows. The writer’s role is to weave and shape these stories into the enthralling and
authentic tales that real life is.

Wednesday 25 July
10.00am-4.00pm
$75/$60* CODE W6
Emma Hardman Walk the Walk and Write the Talk: the secrets of great dialogue
Do your characters drink endless cups of tea and talk about the weather?
Dialogue can stump the best of writers and at this workshop you’ll learn from some of the best, like Raymond
Chandler, Robert McKee, Billy Wilder, David Mamet and Joss Whedon. Learn to make beautiful dialogue together and greatly enrich your manuscript.
Excellent for new and emerging writers.

Wednesday 25 July
10.00am-4.00pm
$75/$60* CODE W7
Alan Close Your Secrets & Everyone Else’s As Well Forget the story you want to tell–how
about the story you don’t want to tell?
Challenge yourself. Lose your inhibitions. Bold and courageous life writing where you’ve never been before, this
workshop will test your honesty.

Wednesday 25 July
9.30am-12.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W8
Byron Shire Council Training Room
Charles Firth Satirically Speaking Spend a morning learning the techniques of creating killer satire, from the writer behind television’s The Chaser. Learn how to tell other people’s
stories with your own unique thrust. Author of the brilliant The American Hoax, Charles will help you unleash your humour and find your target every time. Not for the faint hearted, this workshop will entertain and inspire and stimulate the desire to break through the boundaries.

Wednesday 25 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W9
Byron Shire Council Training Room
Cate Kennedy Short Story Makeover
Do you have a short story in the bottom
drawer you're not satisfied with, but can't quite put your finger on why? This workshop is designed to allow
you to refresh your vision for your piece of fiction. Covering common errors and great tips for improvement, Cate Kennedy will guide participants through narrative, characterisation, dialogue and imagery to get your story breathing with new life again. An
enjoyable and stimulating workshop
for writers at all levels of experience.

Thursday 26 July
10.00am-4.00pm
$55/$40* CODE W10
Industry Professionals Nuts & Bolts: so you want to be a writer
A full day seminar covering the business
and practicalities of being a writer. Rather than showing you how to
write, this seminar will cover the intricacies
of the publishing process and the path of a manuscript through a
publishing house, the role of the agent, the work of the manuscript
assessor and how an editor pulls the good bones out of the flabby body of work. Meet top industry professionals
as they unpick the jargon, the myths and the truths and even point you toward opportunities of further writing education and development. A fat
toolkit of insider knowledge for emerging
writers and those who are just plain curious.
Facilitated by Kate Eltham and Katherine Lyall-Watson
Sponsored by AWM Online

Thursday 26 July
9.30am-12.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W11
Bruce Whatley The Narrative of Image and the Art of the Other
Hand Everyone can draw. Maybe not like Leonardo or Van Gogh but if you can make a mark on a piece of paper you can draw. The trick is in finding the marks that are unique to you. The
marks that define and express the art within. Deep eh? This workshop will look at unlocking
some of the image making potential we all have and discuss ways of applying the process to express our own personal narratives.

Thursday 26 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W12
Shelley Kenigsberg Position, Position, Position: a workshop on structural editing Every piece of writing needs to be shaped and formed if its best features are to shine. While copyediting looks at words and sentences, structural
editing looks at the ‘big picture’, the architecture of a piece of writing and
tries to find the most inspired design. Should it begin here? Is that sentence necessary, clear? Is it correctly
pitched? This workshop helps you answer these questions and more!
Learn techniques for identifying problems
and designing elegant solutions that will fire readers’ imaginations.

Thursday 26 July
9.30am-12.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W13
Byron Shire Council Training Room
Shalini Akhil Showing Not Telling Learn how to write dynamically and lift
your action off the page with the creator of Bollywood Beauty. Give your writing the muscle and energy it needs
to drive the action forward and carry your reader into the moment. Inject colour and passion into your text and watch your unique inner voice unfurl. Shalini brings warmth and humour to
her workshops and you will gain the confidence to develop your own ideas in new directions.

Thursday 26 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W14
Byron Shire Council Training Room
Deepika Shetty Writing Across Media This is an extraordinary opportunity to work with the producer of Singapore’s Channel News Asia, where she presents, among other programs, the book
show Off the Shelf. Deepika is a phenomenally
successful and popular
international blogger and journalist and in this workshop will cover all
aspects of new media and journalism across media. Simply a must for those wishing to understand and contribute to the cutting edge of journalism in a
dynamic and fast moving workshop.

Thursday 26 July
9.30am-12.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W15
Byron Bay RSL
Debra Oswald Great Big People Learn the art of developing character
for performance with the creator of the eternally popular Dags. Bring your
imagination and an open mind for a class that will expand your writing skills and encourage new and
established writers to develop characters that break the mould. Find fresh voices and build brave new people for stage, film and television genres.

Thursday 26 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W16
Byron Bay RSL
Yong Shu Hoong A Great Beginning A poetry workshop with the celebrated Singaporean poet. Learn how to put the perfect word in the perfect place and win your reader from the very first line. This workshop is for the modern poet and will cut to the heart of contemporary writing. Bring the personal to the page and give it universal appeal. The master of pared down and poignant poetry, Yong Shu Hoong will
awaken in participants a new understanding of the power of language.

Friday 27 July
1.30pm-4.30pm
$45/$35* CODE W17
Byron Shire Council Training Room
Garry Disher Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine
So you want to write crime fiction. Police procedurals, private eye novels, whodunits, capers, historical mysteries, psychological mysteries, courtroom dramas, forensic procedurals? Is your hero a cop, private eye, amateur detective, accidental hero, crook, mediaeval monk, cat or dog? Does plot come first, or character? Does there have to be an investigator, a murder, or the restoration
of order? There's more to the genre than cheap
paperbacks left behind in holiday houses, fingerprinted with sunblock. All are welcome, but it will be assumed that participants love the
genre and have read widely in it.