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• Writing Nature: Facts of Life - Andrew Darby

  • When
    18 Apr 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 Nature: Facts of Life - Andrew Darby

  How do we translate troves of scientific data through our own experiences of the natural world into prose that seizes a reader?  In this workshop  Andrew will talk about some of his favourite writing touchstones, and the ways his own work has resonated with others. You are invited to bring your own literary work to share, and be appreciated.

  Andrew Darby is a former daily news journalist who writes on threatened species from his home on the side of kunanyi.  His first book, Harpoon (2009) charted commercial whaling to its continuation in the Antarctic by Japan. The second, Flight Lines, (2020) followed the global  journeys of long distance migratory shorebirds. It won the Tasmanian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction and was short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.  His third book, The Ancients, (2025) is about Tasmania’s fire-endangered tree treasury. It was long-listed for the Moran-Nib Literary Award. His publisher is Allen & Unwin.

  
  

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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 Crime Fiction - Jo Dixon

  • When
    16 May 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
    22

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  Writing Crime Fiction - Jo Dixon

  Under the Crime Umbrella: Justice, revenge, lust, loathing and loot. 
  

  From cosy to cops, serial killer to suspense, understand the building blocks needed to craft your crime novel.

  Over thirteen years ago, Jo Dixon moved from suburban Brisbane to rural Tasmania, where she now writes full-time. She has released three bestselling suspense novels, and has been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly awards, the Danger awards, and the Davitt awards. Her fourth book is currently being transformed from a pile of scribbled notes to words on the screen.

  
  

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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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• Starting and Finishing Stories with Ben Walter

  • When
    13 Jun 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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  Starting and Finishing Stories with Ben Walter
  

  Some of the most difficult elements of writing short stories include developing a gripping opening, and closing out the ending in a way that resonates with readers. In this workshop, we'll spend time discussing how we can do this more effectively, workshopping a range of possibilities to draw readers into our stories and then impact them in way that lingers well beyond the page.

  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 and the poetry collection Lithosphere. 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 regularly in Australia’s major periodicals, including Meanjin, Overland, Island, Griffith Review and The Saturday Paper.

  
  

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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 History - 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
    24

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  Writing History - James Boyce

  [More information to come]

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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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  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 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
    25

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  Writing for the screen - Julia Kalyitis (full day)

  [More information to come]

  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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