Presented by the Gold Coast City Council Library Services, this free one-hour workshop will be held on Thursday 31 July 2014 at Robina Library from 10am to 11am, and led by KATHY STEWART , author of Self-Editing Your Novel. Kathy owns and runs Authors’ Ally, an editing service situated on the Gold Coast, Australia. She has always been passionate about writing and has worked as a professional editor since 2004. Many of the books she has worked on are now selling in bookstores and online and many others are in the pipeline. She has written a number of full-length manuscripts herself and was lucky enough to have her first polished works, The Chameleon Factor and Race Against Time, shortlisted and longlisted respectively for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award in the UK in 2010. She has published a number of short story books, amongst which are the Ten Hands Writing series, Over to You, and Star Turn and Other Stories. Her books, Chameleon, Self-Editing Your Novel, and Betty Bee’s Garden Adventure are all available on Amazon. Kathy was vice-president of the Gold Coast Writers Association in 2012 and co-organiser of the Gold Coast Writers Festival in 2011 and 2012. She is currently a co-convenor of Gold Coast Writers’ Workshops.
Trent Jamieson has sold five novels to international publishers in the last four years, had a novella ‘The Memory of Death’ recently published by Momentum in 2014, and a sixth novel due to be published by Text Publishing in 2015.
His short fiction has been translated into numerous languages, and he has taught at Clarion South, QUT, and the QWC. He was also fiction editor of Redsine Magazine. His specialty is Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy, and he has won two Aurealis Awards for Short Fiction. Trent also works at Avid Reader Bookshop in West End, so is aware of the nature of the writing business at the other end, as well.
Trent’s Serious Play, The Joy of Short Fiction workshop is on 12 April 2014.
Over a thirty-year career, Alan Close has published poetry, fiction, memoir and creative non-fiction. He has also been widely published in the national print media, particularly in the field of men and relationships. He was a columnist on men’s issues in Good Weekend magazine and edited the anthology Men Love Sex, a collection of stories by men about love, sex and relationships. His most recent book is Before You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love.
Alan has a MA in in Creative Non-Fiction from QUT and has taught Creative Writing at QUT and SCU. He is a mentor with both the Australian Society of Authors and the Northern Rivers Writers Centre and has worked as an editor and manuscript assessor for many years. With his partner Sarah Armstrong he now runs an online service editing and assessing manuscripts and teaching and mentoring writers both face to face and online.
His website is alanclose.com
Alan’s lifewriting workshop, Fiction or Memoir? Writing A Story From Your Own Life, is on 15 March 2014.
LOUISE CUSACK is an International award winning fantasy author whose best-selling Shadow through Time trilogy is now published digitally by Pan Macmillan.
As well as presenting the Queensland government’s Queensland Writing Showcase in New York to agents and publishers, Louise has attended the South Australian Film Commission’s multi-media think tank Crossover, and been interviewed on national television by Kerri-Ann Kennerley while sitting in a bed with red satin sheets!
Through her Working with Writers business, Louise has also completed over 150 manuscript assessments and tutored more than 80 writing workshops. Her clients have sold to Hachette, Harlequin, Harper Collins, and Pan Macmillan.
http://louisecusack.com Fantasy and romance novels
http://ifyoumustwrite.com Manuscript assessment, mentoring and writing workshops
Books:
Sex & the Stand In: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00962G2P0
Goddess & the Geek: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0095VBZ68
Marriage & the Mermaid: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097LJ8FG
Louise will present the masterclass, From Character to Plot, on Saturday 15 June, 2013, from 9.15am to 4pm at St John’s Anglican Church hall, 14 Park Avenue, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast.
TIM FERGUSON is a widely acclaimed comedian, writer and producer. He’s toured the world performing stand-up and musical comedy, co-writing dozens of live stage comedy shows and light entertainment programmes.
He has written and produced sitcoms, and is Australia’s foremost teacher of the screen comedy. Tim was a member of comedy trio Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS) (with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler) whose credits include the scifi sitcom Daas Kapital, live comedy show The Big Gig, the feature film The Edinburgh Years, the BBC’s DAAS LOVE and UK Channel 4′s Viva Cabaret.
DAAS broke box office records on 9 world tours and released various books, comics, artworks, live recordings and Australia’s biggest selling independent album, ICON.
Tim is Australia’s foremost narrative comedy teacher. He currently lectures in comedy, screenwriting and concept development at the RMIT University School of Media & Communication in Melbourne (Prof. Screenwriting Adv. Dip.)
Author of the bestselling comedy manual ‘The Cheeky Monkey – Writing Narrative Comedy‘, Tim consults for various production companies and conducts Cheeky Monkey Comedy Courses worldwide.
http://www.cheekymonkeycomedy.com/about/
Tim will present a comedy-writing workshop, Write Comedy Now, on Saturday 10 August, 2013, from 9.45am to 4pm at Fradgley Hall, above the Burleigh Heads Library, cnr Park Avenue and Connor Street, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast.
To book, please go to:
http://goldcoastwritersworkshops-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=1#
MICHAEL JACOBSON was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1961. A journalist for more than 30 years, he was the Gold Coast Bulletin’s senior feature writer, columnist and books editor until leaving the newspaper in July after 23 years of service. His first novel, Windmill Hill, was published by Hodder in 2002, with Always East following in 2004. Both were national best-sellers. After an eight-year break, he is currently finishing his third novel. Away from writing, Michael enjoys The Who, merlot and the Sydney Swans. He detests flying and the music of Neil Diamond.
Michael will present the workshop, The Principles of Editing, on Saturday 19 October, 2013, from 9.15am to 4pm at St John’s Anglican Church hall, 14 Park Avenue, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast.
To book, please go to:
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