Courses
Creative writing classes are beneficial whether or not you know yet what you want to write. Through the process of writing, you learn much about yourself. There is also a great deal of satisfaction in producing something expressive. The focus on our courses is primarily on the process so you can discover your own natural style of writing. There is much attention paid to important aspects of craft and to the benefits of reading and revision.
Course tutor for all courses is Diane Brown, award winning poet, novelist and memoirist. She won the Janet Frame Memorial Award in 2012 and the Beatson Fellowship for 2014. Diane has been teaching creative writing for 20 years, first in Auckland and later in Dunedin where she was the co-ordinator and tutor for Creative Writing at Aoraki Polytechnic in Dunedin for 9 years.
Online Courses
- Finding Your Voice: Anytime, $450
- Tools for Storytelling: Anytime, $550
- Writing Your Life: Anytime, $450
- Making Fine Poems: Anytime, $450
Dunedin Courses
- Finding Your Voice: Tuesday 26 March 7-9pm, $450
- Tools for Storytelling:Tuesday 6 August 7-9pm, $550
- The Manuscript Class 1: Tuesday 15 January 10am-1pm, $570
- The Manuscript Class 2: Thursday 17 January, 3.30-6.30 pm $570
- Writing Your Life: Thursday 28 March 10am-12pm, $450
- Making Fine Poems Thursday 5 September 10am -12pm, $450
Casual Saturday Classes: Dunedin
- Weaving Words: Saturday 4 May, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50
- Muse over Memoir: Saturday 29 July, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50
- What’s the Story?: Saturday 27 July, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50
- Spring into Poetry: Saturday 21 September, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50