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Join renowned author Isobelle Carmody in a Fantasy workshop that will guide you through the process of building a world from the character out, creating settings that serve to advance their story, rather than merely decorating it. Isobelle Carmody spends much of her time travelling. Although she has been writing fantasy set in other worlds and times and places, since she wrote her first book at 14, her writing always...

Once a year I go up Mt Hotham in Victoria for a week, on retreat with a group. We bring our own food and cook for ourselves, sometimes together sometimes separately, except for the first night when I cook for us. We have this year nominated September 20 – 28 as our retreat dates. Reach out to me for more information if you would like to join us. There will...

Award winning Author Isobelle Carmody travels a lot and not just in a geographical sense. She has also travelled through many different genres while following the story road. She began to illustrate her own work twenty years into a career made of words and found there were new stories she could tell with a combination of words and images. She has worked with artists on graphic novels and while doing...

Commencing Sunday August 3rd (The following four workshops are once a month thereafter.) I will be running these for and at the Queensland Writers Centre, in the second half of the year. This series is aimed at people with a novel in progress – you can book using the link above. The course description follows. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and...

Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre’s flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops throughout the year, each detailing the steps you need to take when writing the first...

Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre’s flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops throughout the year, each detailing the steps you need to take when writing the first...

Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre’s flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops throughout the year, each detailing the steps you need to take when writing the first...

Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre’s flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops throughout the year, each detailing the steps you need to take when writing the first...

Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre’s flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops throughout the year, each detailing the steps you need to take when writing the first...