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• Writing Unconventional Short Fiction with Ben Walter

  • When
    22 Nov 2025
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    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
    8

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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.

  
  

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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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• Your First Draft: Unlocking Creativity & Structuring Ideas with Ally Burnham

  • When
    17 Jan 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
    19

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  Your First Draft: Unlocking Creativity & Structuring Ideas
  

  In this creative writing workshop, participants will be shown techniques that unlock creativity, maximise writing in and around our busy lives, and get that valuable first draft on the page. In the second half, participants will learn how to harness that creativity into practical story structures, allowing writers to find the best shape for their first draft. 

  Alexandria Burnham is an AWGIE award-winning screenwriter, novelist and writer of comics. A NIDA graduate (2016, Masters, Writing for Performance), she is best known for her feature film Unsound (Apple, 2020), which was nominated for best original feature at the 2020 AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) awards. Ally is also the lead writer for Metropius (2021), a multi-media story world told across animation, comic books and board games. Her screenplay won Most Outstanding Animation at the 2022 AWGIE Awards. Her comic book series, Forgotten Rose, is set in the same universe.
  
  She also teaches at NIDA Open, training school-aged and adult students in screenwriting for film and television, and features regularly on the writing podcast Prose and Cons. Swallow, an adventure historical fiction based on the true story of Australian pirate William Swallow, is her debut novel.  

  

  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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