Program of Events
Queensland Writers Centre presents a diverse annual Program of events, workshops and courses on the art, craft and business of writing.
Hear from some of the most enlightening names in Queensland and Australian writing, improve your skills and get inspired with tools to uplift your writing and career.
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Through a series of playful prompts, discover how to overcome the horror of the blank page by generating a bunch of fresh ideas.
Are you an experienced poet looking for opportunities to network, connect and take your work to the next level? Perhaps you’re an emerging poet looking for guidance.
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Courses & Special Events
Are you an experienced poet looking for opportunities to network, connect and take your work to the next level? Perhaps you’re an emerging poet looking for guidance.
A Family Affair — explore and interrogate what family might mean for us in our poems.
Be inspired by the poetry of Ireland, write beyond your comfort zone and into the dark.
Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel.
Don't throw away your shot — get your work and your pitch submission-ready.
Workshops
Learn how trauma shapes memory, language and narrative, and how to write the arc of post-traumatic growth in memoir and story.
Tired of three acts? Break the rules and reshape your story with bold, unconventional structure.
Through a series of playful prompts, discover how to overcome the horror of the blank page by generating a bunch of fresh ideas.
Through writing games and exercises participants will create characters, conflict, story and structure, and begin to write a new play.
Learn techniques for writing compelling short fiction.
Learn what narrative tension is and why it's the key to making readers care deeply about your story.
The art and business of ghostwriting – from shaping a powerful life story to pitching work that gets published.
Craft dialogue that reveals, conceals, and transforms your story.
Learn how to raise your author profile and secure valuable media exposure for your book.
Discover how to develop your own writer's voice and master the art of character perspective.
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