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• Journeys and Stories with Coral Tulloch (for 12-15 year olds)

  • When
    24 May 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    16

  Journeys and Stories

  with Coral Tulloch

  This FREE workshop is for young people aged 12-15 years
  

  Join Coral for a workshop to discover your own journeys and stories.  All you will need is a pencil and paper (all provided), your imagination and your voice.
  

  Using the knowledge you have of the world around, you will be encouraged to express something personal about yourself, your friends, family or community, encouraged to bend the truth, mix the times, and change the characters to create a story in both written and visual narratives, mixing fiction with non-fiction…letting paths appear and following journeys, wherever they will lead.

  For those who feel they would rather draw or rather write, or are unsure of what they could do, there will be lucky dips to start you on your journey. 

  Coral Tulloch has illustrated over 50 fiction and non-fiction books for children, in Australia and internationally.

  She is the creator of a syndicated page for children, 'The Tales of Wombat Creek', which appeared for over 20 years in newspapers throughout Australia and overseas. Her book Antarctica, The Heart of the World, which she wrote and illustrated, won the Environment Award for Children's Literature in 2004.

  As well as having a passion for environmental education, Coral loves Antarctica, which she visits when she can as artist-in-residence on tourist voyages; but recently drawings of penguins have given way to tortoise shells. Coral lives in Hobart with her husband, Peter and daughter, Tully.

  This workshop is free of charge, thanks to the support of the Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

  

  Registration Information
  

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  Please book each ticket in the name of the person attending (if someone else is registering them).

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Please let us know if you cannot attend as we may have a waitlist of people wishing to attend this workshop.

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• TasWriters Annual General Meeting 2025

  • When
    29 May 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Hadleys Orient Hotel, Murray Street, Hobart
  • Spaces left
    36

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  Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025
  

  Thursday 29^th May 2025 

  Members and friends, please join us at Hadley's Orient Hotel for the Annual General Meeting of TasWriters.

  Refreshments will be available from 6pm, with the meeting starting promptly at 6:30pm.

  During this AGM you will hear from:

  • the Chair of the Board of Management, Cassandra Wunsch
  • the Treasurer, Erika Thomson

  This event is free, however to ensure we have a quorum, attendance must be registered here. 

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• The Story Toolbox with Christina Booth (12-18 year olds)

  • When
    31 May 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    11

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  The Story Toolbox with Christina Booth

  This FREE workshop is for young people aged 12- 18 years

  Develop your tool box for growing your story and finding your characters. 

  Work with author, Christina Booth, to build your toolbox to help craft your story ideas, navigate your way through writers block, and think outside the box to grow your characters and narrative. 

  Christina Booth is an award-winning, internationally published author/illustrator of over 30 books for children. Her picture books cover many topics, including the environment, history, community and humour. Christina illustrates her own books, and books for other authors, including Jackie French, Colin Thiele, Tania McCartney, Libby Hathorn, and Claire Saxby. 
  

  Her books have won awards, including The Environment Award for Children’s Literature (Welcome Home ; One Careless Night), shortlisted in the Prima Minister’s Literary Awards (One Careless Night), The NSW Zoological Society Whitley Awards, Children’s educational (One Careless Night), and a CBCA Honour Book Award (Kip). Christina’s latest books include: One Careless Night (2019, Walker Books); Mother Earth (Libby Hathorn, 2023, Hachette); Wedge-tailed Eagle (2024, Claire Saxby, Walker Books); and Purinina(2024, CSIRO Publishing).

  
  

  This workshop is free of charge, thanks to the support of the Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

  Registration Information

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  Please book each ticket in the name of the person attending (if someone else is registering them).

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Please let us know if you cannot attend as we may have a waitlist of people wishing to attend this workshop.

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• Rosie Dub: Point of View

  • When
    5 Jul 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Point of View, Perspective and Voice Workshop with Dr Rosie Dub
  

  First person, second, third, close-up, distant, witness . . . whether we’re writing fiction or narrative non-fiction, every story requires us to make choices regarding point of view, perspective and voice. Together, these three elements make up the lens through which a story is told.

  • Whose eyes do we want to tell our story through?
  • How much do our characters know?
  • Are they telling the truth?
  • What unique perspective does each character bring to a story?

  Through discussion, readings and writing exercises we’ll explore a range of points of view and perspectives, create an unreliable narrator and experiment with developing a compelling and characterful narrative voice.

  Dr Rosie Dub is a novelist (Gathering Storm and Flight), mentor, teacher, editor and facilitator of the Centre for Story (www.centreforstory.com), a platform for reimagining the world through story. Rosie spent four years as Creative Writing Fellow at Aberystwyth University in Wales, supervising PhD and MA students. She currently teaches on the MA in Writing program at Swinburne University in Melbourne and runs a wide range of workshops and courses, including the Alchemy of Story series.

  Rosie’s twice monthly Alchemy of Story newsletter provides insights, practical advice and exercises exploring how story forms us, how story frees us and how we can create our own transformational stories that help to reimagine our world.

  Laughter, empathy and a safe space to learn, create and share. Fabulous teaching and a wonderful supportive group. Rosie is the real deal. I had so many ‘aha’ moments and walked away with new insights and solutions to fix my tricky work in progress. A thousand thank you’s Rosie. Erica Adamson

  
  

  Registration Information
  

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  TASWRITERS STUDENT MEMBER TICKETS:

  Only 1 ticket per student member.

  A maximum of 5 Student Member tickets per workshop.

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

  
  

  Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.

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• The Sound is the Gold - A poetry workshop with David Mason and Cally Conan-Davies

  • When
    26 Jul 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    18

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  The Sound is the Gold: A poetry workshop
  

  with David Mason and Cally Conan-Davies

  The best poems often communicate before they are understood. They have an unparaphrasable magic, a quality of enchantment and surprise that sets them apart from ordinary speech. This may have to do with such things as metre and rhyme, with dramatic voice, or simply with uncanny couplings of words. Our workshop takes its lead from this nugget by Robert Frost: “The sound is the gold in the ore.” Guided by the example of some exceptional poems, we will work through several exercises focussed on letting sound deepen us into veins of thought we may never have reached on our own.

  The former poet laureate of Colorado, David Mason grew up in Washington State and now lives in Tasmania, the island state of Australia. His many books include Ludlow, an award-winning verse novel, The Sound: New and Selected Poems, Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, and Pacific Light. An essayist and librettist as well as a poet, Mason taught for many years at Colorado College and has given lectures and readings all over the world. His website can be found at https://davidmasonpoet.com/index.html

  Cally Conan-Davies was born in Hobart 64 years ago, and recited her first poem on the Theatre Royal stage a few years after that. Since then, she has committed many poems to memory while studying at school and university, raising her daughter, and teaching poetry and writing across the country, and at colleges and other institutions in America. Since she began writing poetry a decade ago, Cally has been published widely in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in Australia. Some of her work has been translated into Chinese, and has been anthologised several times. She has given poetry readings and workshops in New York, London, Athens, and Hobart.

      

  Registration Information
  

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  TASWRITERS STUDENT MEMBER TICKETS:

  Only 1 ticket per student member.

  A maximum of 5 Student Member tickets per workshop.

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

  
  

  Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.

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• David owen - Crime Fiction Workshop

  • When
    2 Aug 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    20

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  Crime Fiction Workshop
  

  With David Owen

  The Workshop will cover six principal aspects of writing crime fiction. A handout summarising the workshop will be available at the beginning of the session. Attendees are invited to engage with the tutor throughout the session: questions, reflections, alternative viewpoints. Attendees will be invited to email a short piece of crime-related fiction (up to 3000 words) to the tutor in the weeks after the session, for feedback.

  The six principal aspects: Setting; Plot and Plausibility/Verisimilitude; Character; Writing Style; Story Structure; Editing.

  David Owen is the author of 19 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the ‘Pufferfish’ Detective Inspector Franz Heineken detective series, nine of which have been published and republished over 30 years. The 10^th in the series is due in the first quarter of 2026 (Fullers Publishing). The series is set in Tasmania and is a key factor in its longevity, as the longest running Australian crime series.

  

  Registration Information
  

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  TASWRITERS STUDENT MEMBER TICKETS:

  Only 1 ticket per student member.

  A maximum of 5 Student Member tickets per workshop.

  
  

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

  Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.

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• Exploring the Narrative Triangle With Cameron Hindrum at Launceston Library

  • When
    9 Aug 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Launceston Library in the Medium Room
  • Spaces left
    14

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  Exploring the Narrative Triangle: Who knows? Who sees? Who tells?  With Cameron Hindrum.

  This workshop is intended for all writers of fiction (long form or short), at any stage or level of accomplishment. Beginning writers will be provided with some ideas to help with storybuilding or plot development and characterisation, while more experienced writers may gain new insight into the crafting of different points of view within their fictional worlds, while contemplating such concepts as unreliable narration, focalisation and authorial distance.

  Developed from the work of narratologist Mieke Bal, the ‘narrative triangle’ allows us to consider the essence of how narrative works: considering who is relating a story to the reader, how or why they are in a position to do so, and all the myriad possibilities inherent in complicating a narrator’s relationship with the story are telling, and its characters.

  This will be a practical workshop, taking participants through three exercises that illustrate key concepts, ideas or inspirations; we will engage with the basics of storybuilding through to the principles of narrative structure, with a sprinkling of narrative theory and a list of published examples to unpack and discuss.

  Cameron Hindrum lives, writes and works in Launceston. He has published a novel, The Blue Cathedral (Forty South) and several collections of poetry; his second novel manuscript The Sand won the University of Tasmania Prize for best unpublished manuscript at the 2022 Tasmanian Premiers’ Literary Awards and is still desperately seeking a publisher. He has had two plays professionally produced and has written two others, and in 2021 he completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts (Writing) through the University of Wollongong. He served as the Director of the annual Tasmanian Poetry Festival for seventeen years until 2019, and has served on the boards of Tas Writers and the Tamar Valley Writers Festival.

  
  

  Registration Information
  

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  TASWRITERS STUDENT MEMBER TICKETS:

  Only 1 ticket per student member.

  A maximum of 5 Student Member tickets per workshop.

  
  

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

  Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.

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• Crafting horror fiction that lingers with Maree Kimberley

  • When
    13 Sep 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    20

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  Crafting horror fiction that lingers with Maree Kimberley

  Great horror fiction does more than just provide cheap thrills—it allows readers to face their fears and come to terms with them.

  You may have heard the maxim write what you know. For horror fiction, it’s about writing what terrifies you.

  In this workshop, writers will learn the elements of what makes a great horror story and learn techniques that will support them in writing their own worst fears, including creating empathetic characters, compelling plots and satisfying endings.

  Workshop participants will:

  -    discuss the various types of horror genres and tropes

  -    learn about the various elements that make a great horror story

  -    define their personal horror writing goals

  -    participate in writing exercises to capture and explore their horror fiction ideas.

  Dr Maree Kimberley writes fiction and non-fiction across a range of genres under her own name and, for horror fiction, as Rue Karney.

  She is a committee member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) and writes and distributes the associations’ monthly newsletter. She was a judge for the horror category for the 2014 and 2015 Aurealis Awards and has also been a fiction submissions reader for a number of publications including Aurealis Magazine, Australia ’s longest running small-press speculative fiction magazine.

  Her young adult novel, Dirt Circus League (Text Publishing, 2021) was a CBCA notable book and shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards (best young adult novel) and Scarlet Stiletto Awards (best young adult crime novel). She has also published a children ’s novella and more than 30 short stories as well non-fiction articles and academic articles.

  
  

  Registration Information

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  TASWRITERS STUDENT MEMBER TICKETS:

  Only 1 ticket per student member.

  A maximum of 5 Student Member tickets per workshop.

  
  

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

  Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.

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• Characters on the Couch with Liz Evans

  • When
    4 Oct 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hobart Library, Training Room 1, entrance is outside the library, halfway up the ramp in the Library carpark (Bathurst St side)
  • Spaces left
    20

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  Characters on the Couch with Liz Evans

  • Why do your characters do what they do?
    
  • What motivates them?
    
  • How have they become who they are?
    

  In this workshop, author and qualified psychotherapist, Liz Evans, will show you how to create convincing and compelling characters using ideas from psychoanalytic theory. 

  You’ll find out how to explore characterisation from an in-depth perspective, learn why building character files is so important, and discover how treating your characters as real people will help bring them to life on the page. You’ll also learn how which details convey character most effectively, including body language, dialogue, and clothing. 

  Liz Evans is an award-winning writer and researcher from the UK. Throughout the 1990s, she was a rock journalist in London and published two books on women and music, before retraining as a psychodynamic psychotherapist. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from UTAS where she has taught English & Writing subjects. Her debut novel, Catherine Wheel, was published last year by Ultimo Press, she is a literary critic for The Conversation and is currently working on her second novel for Ultimo. 

  
  

  Registration Information

  In case of emergency, phone number is a required field if you are booking tickets for anyone under 18 years old. A mobile phone number is preferable.

  TASWRITERS STUDENT MEMBER TICKETS:

  Only 1 ticket per student member.

  A maximum of 5 Student Member tickets per workshop.

  
  

  CANCELLATION POLICY:

  Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

  Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.

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