Our Online Feedback Clinics are for writers of all levels and are ideal if you prefer a flexible writing schedule.
Find out more about how these clinics are run by reading the Frequently Asked Questions here.
Workshop and feedback rounds
For the full experience, sign up for the workshop and feedback rounds. The workshop will introduce the topic and your tutor. You’ll then submit your own work for feedback from the tutor and your peers over the next three months via an online forum.
If you’d prefer to just dip a toe into the clinics, you can sign up just for a one-day workshop.
Creative Non-Fiction with Ruth McIver
Workshop: Sunday 6 July, 10am – 4pm
Submission deadlines: Pieces of up to 1200 words due Wednesdays 20 August, 17 September and 15 October.
In this in-person workshop and online feedback clinic, Hayley Singer will give you the tools you need to explore the rich possibilities of creative non-fiction and how to use it to tell stories that make a difference.
Hayley uses lessons from a diverse range of creative non-fiction forms to explore creative non-fiction craft techniques that will help you sustain your writing practice, including voice, pace, structure, research, ethics and development.
The feedback component of this course is delivered via our online forum.
Writing Ecologies with Natalie Rose Dyer
Workshops: Saturday 30 August (online), 6 September (in-person), 10am – 1pm
Submission deadlines: Poems of up 60 lines or essays of up to 2000 words due Thursday 25 September and Monday 6 October.
Explore your relationship with landscape in this long course designed to help you start a poem or an essay and have it ready for submission to journals or competitions.
In the first 3-hour online session you will analyse different approaches to writing environmental ecologies drawing on a set of writers who have explored their relationship to landscape.
In the second in-person session we will take a walk in the Yarra Ranges area together to bear witness to this environmental ecology poetically—and precisely. We will undertake field work writing against the romanticisation of wildscapes, but rather in consideration of the impacts of human predation in The Dandenong Ranges
The last two sessions are written feedback sessions that will take place on our online forum in which Natalie will read and provide feedback on your written work.
Online Feedback Rounds
Short Story Online Feedback
with Eugen Bacon
Submission Deadlines: Pieces of up to 1,500 words due Tuesdays 1 July, 29 July, 26 August and 25 September
In this online feedback clinic, author Eugen Bacon will provide feedback on your short fiction, enabling you to improve your skills over four months.
Be part of a supportive community of short story writers and work on your project under the guidance of award-winning writer and editor Eugen Bacon. Over four months (July to October), submit a short story of up to 1,500 words and receive personalised feedback from Eugen and your peers. The feedback will focus on areas such as character development, structure, point of view and narrative voice.
This online course takes place in our online forum.
Fantasy Online Feedback
with Hoa Pham
Submission deadlines: Pieces of up to 1,200 words due Tuesdays 1 July, 29 July, 26 August and 23 September
Join a supportive community of fantasy writers and hone your craft under the guidance of award-winning author and editor Hoa Pham.
Over four months (July to October), submit up to 1,200 of your work in progress and receive personalised feedback from Hoa and your peers. The feedback will focus on areas such as world building, character development human and non-human, mythology (if appropriate), structure, point of view(s) and narrative voice(s).
This feedback clinic is suited for anyone seeking to advance or polish their manuscript.