Winter School – How to Run a Writing Event
Date:
With:
Sam Twyford-Moore
Rating:
EARLY, EMERGING
Summary:
Events are increasingly important for reaching your readers – and indeed meeting them face to face! A powerful reading and performance event – which starts with a unique concept – is a new avenue to reach your audience, promote your creative work and potentially meet publishers and literary producers.
Details
Learn how to come up with a strong concept but also put that great idea into action – locking down the right venue, creating a precise running order and reaching out to partners and sponsors, and other writers, to help deliver your best event.
You will learn
- How to come up with a unique concept for an event
- How to explore your city and find a space
- How to write an effective running order
- How to successfully market an event
- How to book speakers, employ other writers and promote your peers
This workshop develops employment-related skills.
About Sam Twyford-Moore
Sam Twyford-Moore is the Creative Director of The Melbourne Agency and the founding host of The Rereaders podcast. He is the former Festival Director and CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. In 2014, working with Asialink Arts, he curated and managed the international writers' tour ‘Island to Island’ connecting emerging Indonesian and Australian writers in a train journey across Java and Bali.
"It’s a treat to receive such a candid discussion from such a well-informed insider" - WV participant, March 2016.
Check out all our Winter School writing workshops
- Winter School – Poetry and the Past with Ali Alizadeh
- Winter School – Getting Your Manuscript Ready for Submission with Shivaun Plozza
- Winter School – Getting a Story Started with Amie Kaufman
- Winter School – The Narrative in Non-Fiction with Damon Young
- Winter School – Songwriting with Charles Jenkins
- Winter School – How to Run a Writing Event with Sam Twyford-Moore
- Winter School – YA with Fiona Wood
- Winter School – Ghostwriting with David Brewster
- Winter School – Blogging with Karen Andrews
- Winter School – On the Page with Clare Strahan
- Winter School – Historical Fiction with Kate Mildenhall
- Winter School – The Ethics of Using Real Stories in Fiction with Laura Jean McKay
- Winter School – Travel Writing with Kate J Armstrong
- Winter School – Fantasy and Magic Realism in Short Story with Leanne Hall
Watch this space for more Winter School courses (to be announced soon).
Read a Q&A with Sam Twyford-Moore on running literary events.