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• Beyond Print: Exploring Other Channels For Your IP with David Reiter

  • When
    30 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)
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    12

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  Beyond Print: Exploring Other Channels For Your IP with David Reiter 

  Print books still have a life, but there are other audiences out there for your work, so why not offer it to them?

  In this workshop, Dr David Reiter will show you how to move from conventional to digital print, and then how to repurpose your content for the three primary eBook formats. 

  Audiobooks are a growing market, and your several options here – whether through conventional recording and sound engineering or AI-generated – will also be explored.

  It’s one thing to produce an eBook or audiobook, but how do you sell it? Major channels of distribution will also be covered.

  Dr David P Reiter is an award-winning text and digital artist, and Publisher / CEO of IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd). His most recent works are the multimedia verse play Tchaikovsky (Almost) in Love, the picture book DIScombolulation (Book 2 of the Sir Humphrey & Woody Series), the satiric novel Black Books Publishing, and the digital narrative Time Lords Remixed: a Dr Who Poetical. He’s won the Western Australian Premier’s Award twice, and the Queensland Premier’s Award. He gives talks on all aspects of independent publishing and is the author of  Your eBook Survival Kit, now in its 4th edition.
  

  
  

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  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.

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  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)
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    16

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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.

  
  

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  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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• Take Me Away: Place Writing That Zings with Claire van Ryn at Launceston Library

  • When
    13 Sep 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Launceston Library, Room 3
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    10

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  Take Me Away: Place Writing That Zings with Claire van Ryn
  

  We’ve all heard it said of certain fiction that ‘the landscape was like another character’.
  

  How does a writer create this sense of depth and complexity when it comes to place-telling?

  In this practical workshop, we will explore ways to write about landscapes, suburbia, homes and buildings that invite the reader to step into place, like that wardrobe door into Narnia. We will consider how, as with an artist painting a landscape, the careful and strategic layering of the medium creates a unique rendering of time and place. Texture, composition, style, themes, scale, context, depth, tones, light and shade are some of the elements we will play with.

  This workshop will include plenty of opportunity to begin or continue to develop a piece of writing about a significant place. There will be a mix of readings, exercises and discussion, as well as peer feedback. If time and weather permits, we will also venture outdoors for an immersive writing exercise.
  

  Claire van Ryn hails from Launceston and is an awarded writer, journalist and author whose work explores universal themes of connection, compassion, trauma and healing. Her debut novel The Secrets of the Huon Wren (Penguin Random House, 2023) was a bestseller and is set beneath the Great Western Tiers and Mother Cummings Peak in Tasmania’s heartland. Her second novel, Where The Birds Call Her Name, was published in March this year, and details four generations of women, set in the seaside town of Stanley. Claire worked as a journalist for The Examiner newspaper for nearly 10 years and, in 2012, Claire’s non-fiction book Faith Like a Mushroom won the Australian Young Christian Writer award. Claire has also put her skills to use as magazine editor, communications specialist, writing tutor and manager of her own content creation business.

  
  

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  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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• Writing fanfiction with Hannah Warwarek (for 14 - 18 year olds)

  • When
    20 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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  Writing fanfiction with Hannah Warwarek

  This FREE workshop is for young people aged 14 - 18 years

  Have you ever written (or wanted to write) something that uses the characters, worlds or plots already created by another writer? Why do we have a desire to create something new from the work of someone else? How can it help us to become better writers? How can we do so in a way that is respectful and pays tribute to the original authors and their creations?
  

  Writing fanfiction can enable you to focus on the joy of writing something you want to read – to spend more time in the world you love, with the characters that you cherish, or to rewrite that ending that left you cold, without the pressure of having to imagine everything from scratch.
  

  In this workshop, Hannah Warwarek will share a range of fanfiction examples, from online works to those that have been traditionally published. You’ll explore tips and strategies for how you can use your favourite works of fiction to compose your own fanfiction pieces, discovering new ways to imagine and appreciate the work of the authors you love, and enhance your own skills as a writer.

  Hannah Warwarek grew up in Hobart and completed her tertiary studies at the University of Tasmania. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) with majors in History and English and a Master of Teaching (Secondary). Hannah was a recipient of a UTAS Cultural Environments & Heritage Honours Scholarship, in which she engaged with Tasmanian archival material to produce a series of creative writing vignettes as part of her Honours thesis.

  In 2015, Hannah completed a writing residency at Hadley’s Hotel as part of the inaugural Young Writers in the City programme, facilitated by TasWriters. She has been a contributing sequence author to the national award-winning educational resource ‘Poems to Share II’, produced by Red Room Poetry. In 2019, Hannah was fortunate to be shortlisted for the Tasmanian Young Writers’ Fellowship as part of the biennial Premier’s Literary Prizes.

  Hannah’s passion for literature, history and creative writing inspired her to pursue a teaching career path. She has worked in several public, Catholic and independent schools in southern Tasmania, including St Mary’s College, The Friends’ School and Hobart College.

  Hannah aims to make a difference to students’ lives through building positive relationships, managing a safe learning environment, fostering a sense of curiosity, and challenging students to achieve their best.

  When she isn’t teaching, Hannah enjoys reading, working on her own creative writing projects, and participating in weekly dance classes with her dance school’s senior performance group.

  
  

  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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• Exploring Voice in Poetry and Prose with Blake Nuto (for 14 - 18 year olds)

  • When
    27 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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  Exploring Voice in Poetry and Prose with Blake Nuto
  

  This FREE workshop is for young people aged 14-18 years
  

  Discover how writers use voice to bring their work to life.
  

  In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how authors craft different voices in poetry and prose—shaping tone, attitude, and perspective. Just as an actor might slip into a costume or don a mask to become someone else, we’ll explore how writers adapt their voice to suit the character, mood, or message they want to express.

  Through reading, discussion, and creative writing activities, this workshop will give you tools to shape your words with intention and imagination. You’ll get to experiment with using voice in your own work to see how even subtle changes can dramatically transform a piece of writing.

  Blake Nuto is an author and illustrator living in lutruwita (Tasmania), Australia with his wife and three children. He is a trained teacher with a deep love of literature and a desire to integrate philosophy and mindfulness into education.
  

  When You’re A Boy is his debut author-illustrated book, published through Affirm Press in 2023. His books, A Day That’s Ours and Child of Galaxies are also available through Flying Eye Books and have been translated into multiple languages.

  His books have been nominated for the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards and both the Queensland and Tasmanian Literary Prizes.
  Blake is represented by Kowal Stannus Agency (UK). 

  
  

  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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• 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
    15

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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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• Being a Bird, a Poetry Workshop with Adrienne Eberhard for 14 to 18 year-olds

  • When
    11 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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  Being a Bird, a Poetry Workshop with Adrienne Eberhard

  This FREE workshop is for young people aged 14-18 years
  

  When I look out my window, I see rosellas and musk lorikeets dive-bombing the flowers on the blue gums, and cormorants flying in enormous groups like squadrons of aircraft. I can hear plovers creating a cacophony and wattle birds sounding like they are trying to cough something up. What birds do you see and hear outside your windows, and what do they make you think about? Using images, reading poems, and drawing on our own experience, we will write poems about birds, or use birds to help us explore other ideas. At the same time, we will develop our understanding of figurative language, line endings and form.

  Adrienne Eberhard is a poet and educator. Her sixth poetry collection, a bilingual edition, translated into French by Catherine de Saint Phalle, was launched in Paris in April 2025. She has taught creative writing in schools, at university, and in the community for over 30 years, and loves to help others discover their writing talent through language games, reading wonderful poems, and wide-ranging stimulus and inspiration. 

  
  

  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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• Writing for the Screen with Julia Kalytis

  • When
    25 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)
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    18

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  Writing for the Screen with Julia Kalytis

  Writing for the screen is a specific skill, requiring both awareness and acceptance of the transformation that must necessarily occur when we translate from the page to screen. Screenwriting uses a different language and a new conceptual approach; it is helpful for authors to have a glimpse of this world and to understand more clearly the logistics of the production processes to which their work may one day be exposed.

  This workshop considers some fundamental aspects of writing with the screen in mind. Participants will examine script formatting, screen language, narrative structure, and compression of action and the time line, as they enter a new realm of sound and vision.

  Julia Kalytis joined ABC Television in Sydney in 1984. She has written and directed for the screen across diverse styles and formats, including drama, documentary, comedy, current affairs and children’s and education television. She produced and directed The Investigators, Quantum and Compass, and in 1993 wrote and directed Conduct Unbecoming, a feature documentary about sexual abuse by clergy in Australia. 
  

  In 1996, for the training department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Julia developed Research Brief to Broadcast, a course tutoring young directors and production trainees in writing techniques, working with actors, and screen production. Her special interest was in mentoring emerging professionals through the entire creative process, from original idea, to proposal, synopsis, treatment, script, performance, camera coverage and the editing process.

  After leaving the ABC, she lectured in Media at UNSW, UTS and Sydney universities, creating undergraduate and postgraduate courses in screen language, production and communication.

  In 2003 she moved to the Northern Rivers area of NSW, joining SCREENWORKS there as an early professional member. At Southern Cross University, she conducted freelance workshops in camera coverage, interview techniques, proposal development and working with performers. 

  Originally Tasmanian, she now lives near the Huon Valley in Southern Tasmania.

  

  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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• Fiction Writing for Beginners with Esther Campion at Launceston Library

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Launceston Library, Room 3
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    13

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  Fiction Writing for Beginners with Esther Campion

  Ever wanted to dip your toe into the wonderful world of fiction writing? Maybe you’ve started a project but stalled? In Esther Campion’s workshop, Fiction Writing for Beginners, we will explore how to write engaging characters, a page-turning plot and create a setting for your story that’s like a character in itself. We will also touch on editing and how you might go about getting your fiction published. Come prepared with your pens and notebooks, ready to dive into writing exercises that will flex your writing muscles. Together, we will create a safe space where you can share your work and receive feedback if you like. No pressure. The aim of the session is to give you an insight into the basics of fiction writing and have some fun along the way.

  
  

  Esther Campion is the author of four best-selling novels. She is published by Hachett Australia:

  https://www.hachette.com.au/esther-campion/.

  Esther’s books are available in print, large print and ebook. A Week to Remember and The Writing Class are also available on Audible. Esther is from Cork, Ireland and currently lives in Port Sorell in North West Tasmania where she shares a small property with her Orcadian husband, their youngest child and a selection of beloved pets.

  
  

  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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• Writing Unconventional Short Fiction with Ben Walter

  • When
    22 Nov 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)
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    17

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  Writing Unconventional Short Fiction with Ben Walter

  How can we make our stories original and distinct? In this session, we’ll consider a range of examples and reflect on questions of voice, form, structure and emotional heft to consider what will help make our stories stand out from the crowd.

  Ben Walter is a Walkley Award-winning essayist, a past fiction editor at Island, and the author of the acclaimed short story collection, What Fear Was. Internationally, his stories have appeared in The Cimarron Review (US), 3:AM Magazine (France) and The Kenyon Review (US), one of the world's most prestigious literary magazines. His work has appeared multiple times in Australia’s major periodicals, including Meanjin, Overland, Island, Griffith Review and The Saturday Paper, and his debut poetry collection, Lithosphere, is being published this year through Puncher & Wattmann.

  
  

  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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