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: Tues 27 February 7-9pm, $450
- Tools for Storytelling:Tues 24 July 7-9pm, $550
- The Manuscript Class 1: Mon 5 February 10am-1pm, $570
- The Manuscript Class 2: By arrangement, $570
- Writing Your Life: Mon 27 February 10am-12pm, $450
- Making Fine Poems Mon 24 July 10am -12pm, $450
Casual Saturday Classes: Dunedin
- What’s the Story?: Saturday 24 February, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50
- Muse over Memoir: Saturday 26 May, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50
- True Stories: Saturday 28 July, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50
- Spring into Poetry: Saturday 15 September, 10.30am-3.30pm, $50