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• Writing History: A Human Endeavour with James Boyce

  • When
    18 Jul 2026
  •  
    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
    9

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  Writing History: A Human Endeavour

  with James Boyce

  In this workshop, writer and historian James Boyce will reflect on how some of his ideas have grown into a book and ponder how history is made from the scant glimpses we have into past human experience.

  How did the topic get chosen? Did the questions change? What are the stages each project went through? How was the mass of research sifted and sorted into a readable narrative? What is it just a rational process or also a dialogue with the unknown?

  James will make the case that while even the best trained robot cannot write real history, YOU can.

  Bio: Out of a conviction that the past lives in the present, and that history need not be ‘dumbed down’ to be accessible, for 20 years James Boyce has sought to make his living by writing serious history for a general readership. 

  His first book, Van Diemen’s Land, was described by Tim Flannery as ‘the first ecologically based social history of colonial Australia’ that was a ‘must read for anyone interested in how land shapes people’.  

  1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, that reimagined the cultural and legal context for the conquest of the continent, was the Age Book of the year. Both colonial histories won the Tasmanian Book Prize and won or were short listed in multiple other national book awards.

  His other books include Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World, Losing Streak: How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry and Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens. His latest tome, Origins: The Making of Australia 1788-1825 will be released by Black Inc later this year.

  
  

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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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• It’s Time To Write Your Novel: Introduction to Creative Writing with Poppy Gee

  • When
    18 Jul 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Launceston Library, High Street Centre
  • Spaces left
    18

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  It’s Time To Write Your Novel: Introduction to Creative Writing

  with Poppy Gee

  This is a practical workshop that provide tips and tools for the writer’s toolbox. Writers will learn how to turn the seed of an idea into a novel, learn how to prepare their blurb, sharpen their hooks, hone their plot and shape their character arcs. They’ll learn the difference between twists and reveals, and how to use them, as well as examining setting, satisfying endings, and different techniques (pacing, layering, foreshadowing) to keep readers turning the pages. Writers will make solid, tangible work on their work-in-progress or new project, and go home with a clear sense of what they need to do next. There will be time for all the important publishing questions – pathways to publication, how to submit your work, tips on writing pitches, cover letters and synopses, and mistakes to avoid. 
  

  Poppy Gee is a Brisbane based writer with two internationally published crime novels: Bay of Fires (Little Brown, Headline Review, Hachette Australia, 2013) and Vanishing Falls (Harper Collins USA, and Booktopia Editions, 2020) both set in Tasmania where she grew up. She has worked as a journalist, book reviewer and subeditor for the Courier Mail; chief-sub editor of Girlfriend magazine; and has taught journalism at QUT. Poppy has a Masters in Creative Writing from UQ for which she received the Dean's Award for Excellence. She is co-convenor for Queensland Sisters in Crime. Poppy is represented by Julia Kenny at DCL Literary Agency New York and is currently working on her third novel.

  
  

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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 Memoir with Maggie Mackellar

  • When
    22 Aug 2026
  •  
    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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  Maggie Mackellar: Writing Memoir

  
  

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  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 for the screen - Julia Kalyitis (full day)

  • When
    26 Sep 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Rosny Library, Room 5, 46 Bligh Street, Rosny
  • Spaces left
    24

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  Writing for the screen - Julia Kalyitis (full day)

  [More information to come]

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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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• How to secure publicity for your book with Kirsty Nancarrow

  • When
    10 Oct 2026
  •  
    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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  How to secure publication for your book with Kirsty Nancarrow

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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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• Nature writing in fiction with Katherine Johnson

  • When
    24 Oct 2026
  •  
    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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  Nature writing in fiction with Katherine Johnson

  
  

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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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• Writing Poetry with David Mason and Cally Conan Davies

  • When
    21 Nov 2026
  •  
    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 Poetry

  with David Mason and Cally Conan Davies

  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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