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Indigenous Places (video)
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Literary & Arts Organisations in Victoria
Literary orgs outside Victoria
Making a Living as a Writer
National Writers’ Centre Network
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund Q&A (video)
Never just Description: How Setting Can Enhance Your Story
Opportunities for Writers (video)
Other Places (video)
Our Bodies, Our Stories (video)
Pathways to Publication (video)
Plotters vs pantsers (video)
Researching Your Family History
Resolving short stories (video)
Resources for Crime Writers
Resources for Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers
Resources for Indigenous Writers
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Resources for Playwrights
Resources for Poets
Resources for Romance Writers
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Resources for Young Writers 16-25
Respinning the magic of fairy tales (video)
Setting up a writing group
Short stories and conflict (video)
Short stories and time (video)
The conventions of fairy tales (video)
The daily necessity of poetry (video)
The First Time Podcast
The future of travel writing (video)
The Garret Podcast
Writeability Fellowships Information Session (video)
Writing and motivation (podcast)
Writing Competitions
Writing Courses
Writing for Children
Writing for Young Adults
Writing Indigenous characters (video)
Writing Workouts
Analysing photographs
And what have we learned from this amusing episode?
Begin with the End
Digging up the themes of your life
Distance yourself
Doing the cards
Enrich your dialogue, enrich your stories
Ethics of memoir
Give the scene energy
Hard-working blurbs
Impersonating writers, inhabiting characters
Making your characters talk
Memoir writing and protecting yourself
Memory, Veracity vs Making Things Up
Mess it up
Open your ears
Personal experiences, memorable stories
Plotting character pivots
Possible selves
Redrafting
Showing, not telling
Synopsis and pitch
Take your character for a walk
Test your grammar
The truth is out there
The voice of the other
Voice and point of view
Voice: The most elusive of all writing elements
When the words won’t come
Write yourself a letter
Writing conflict
Sense of Place: The Basics with Angela Savage
Shop
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Speculative Fiction Prize Pack Books
Spotlight Services
Storming the City
Submit to the magazine
Subscribe
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Thank you
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The Craft of Structure with Cate Kennedy
The Deborah Cass Prize for Writing
The LIMINAL & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize
The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund
The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund
The Power of the Verb with Kate Cuthbert
The Victoria Writer: Feb-Mar 2020
The Victorian Writer Apr-May
The Victorian Writer Archives
The Victorian Writer Aug Sep 19 Exchanges
The Victorian Writer Dec 2016/Jan 2017
The Victorian Writer Feb-Mar
The Victorian Writer Jun Jul Beginnings
The Victorian Writer Jun-Jul 17
The Victorian Writer: 2019 Oct-Nov
The Victorian Writer: 2019-20 Dec-Jan
The Victorian Writer: Apr–May: Write Place
The Victorian Writer: Aug-Sep 18 – Non-fictional
The Victorian Writer: Dec-Jan: Writing Each Other
The Victorian Writer: Feb-Mar: Doing It For the Kids
The Victorian Writer: Oct-Nov The Emerging Issue
The Writers Victoria Fund
TVW Oct-Nov 2016
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Weathering the Storm Anthology
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A Storm is Coming
After the Storm
Failed Escapes: A Dream Diary
Climate and Disability Activism: The Perfect Storm
Winter Trees
Rose Among the Thorns
New Era
Welcome
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Welcome to Writers Victoria
Welcome to Writers Victoria DRAFT
What is Creative Nonfiction? With Elizabeth Flux
What to expect
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A Portal to Poetry: Poetry and Writing on a Word Level
Balancing Backstory
Building an Essay Collection
Building Suspense in Writing
Collaborating with Your Subject
Conquering Fear as a Writer
Copywriting
Crafting a Non-Fiction Book Proposal
Creative Forms of Life Writing
Desire in Poetry
Developing Strong Characters
Finding the Focus of Your Memoir
Flash Fiction
How to Write About ‘Issues’ in YA (Without Making It an Issue)
Let’s Talk About… Finance For Writers
Let’s Talk About… Adapting Work for Film and TV
Let’s Talk About… Working with Arts Boards
Let’s Talk About… Working with Booksellers
Long Course: Podcasts and Audio Storytelling
Long Course: Self-Publishing in Depth
Long Course: The Bones of a Story
Lunchtime Bite: Accessing Creative Flow States
Lunchtime Bite: Introverts Guide to Self-Promotion
Lunchtime Bite: Writing with Tarot
Online Feedback Clinic: Creative Non-Fiction
Online Feedback Clinic: Graphic Narratives
Online Feedback Clinic: Pitching to Literary Journals
Online Feedback Clinic: Poetry
Online Feedback Clinic: Short Story
Online Feedback Clinic: Speculative Fiction
Online Feedback Clinic: Young Adult
Online Long Course: The Next Draft
Online Panel: Ask About… Anthologies
Online Seminar: Finding Your Muse
Online Workshop: Compelling Characters in Short Fiction
Online Workshop: Decolonial Storytelling
Online Workshop: Understanding Young Audiences
Poetry and the Archive
Poetry in Performance
Revising and Finetuning Emotions
Rewriting Fairy Tales
Speaking about Writing
Writing about Art
Writing Climate Fiction
Writing Criticism
Writing Fandom
Writing for Primary Audiences
Writing Loss and Grief in YA
Writing Novellas
Writing Relationships and Psychology in Fiction
Writing Sport
Writing the Supernatural
Writeability Archive
Writeability Fellowships
Writeability Goes Local
Writeability Goes Regional and Online
Writeability Newsletter
Writeability Resources
Writeability: Writers with Disability
Writers on Writers Vic
Writers Studios
Writers Victoria Comments Policy
Writing Up a Storm Anthology
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A Beachy Day
In and Out of Sunshine
It’s Called a Sea, Not an Ocean
Playing the Game: Sport Designed for People of Short Stature
Poems
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Young Adult Fiction Prize Pack
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Young Writers
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