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Australia's leading creative writing workshop for children and young people

For creativity, literacy, confidence, pride in work, general braininess and heaps of fun.

After-School and Holiday Writing Workshops

Immensely imaginative, enormously educational, constantly creative, fabulously fun creative writing workshops for young writers aged 6-18.
After-school (face-to-face and live online), School holidays, Self-paced online. Not sure? Try Gift certificates

In-School
Programs

Incursions and in-school programs to boost creative writing skills and engagement, all stages.
One-off and fully integrated programs for schools

Teacher Professional
Development

Ideas, inspiration and pedagogical skills for teachers from kindergarten to HSC (including new curriculum units). 
NESA-Accredited, Author-educators

The Writing Workshop’s response to COVID-19

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The Writing Workshop is a registered COVIDSafe business. Please see our COVIDSafe page for more information.

We offer both online and face-to-face after-school and school holiday workshops. Every writing workshop is eligible for Service NSW creative kids vouchers. For schools, we are set up to offer high-quality in-school (face-to-face), online workshops and teacher professional learning workshops and will adapt to your school’s COVID-19 requirements.

We deeply appreciate the support and flexibility of parents and participants through this challenging time. Thank you for your understanding, and be well.

Bernard and team

 

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Creative Writing Workshops

Join The Writing Workshop after school, in school holidays and online.

Please note: during Sydney lockdown periods, all workshops are shifted online.

 

After-School
Workshops

Join The Writing Workshop's after-school creative writing workshops Live Online (via Zoom) on Mondays and Tuesdays or in Marsfield (Kent Road PS) and Annandale for Primary years 1–6. For high-school students, join us live via Zoom or in Leichhardt for Years 7–9 and Years 10–12.

School Holiday
Workshops

Head out to Sydney Olympic Park (Bicentennial Park) with a picnic lunch and your brain switched to HIGH this school holidays, or enjoy our immersive online alternativeFun, engaging and skill-boosting workshops for ages 6–15 years. New program every holidays. Accomplished authors lead all workshops.

Online
Workshops

Join The Writing Workshop online. Work at your own pace. (For live, fixed-time workshops, join our regular weekly online After-School Workshops.) Register, submit your creative writing and receive support and guidance from your peers and an experienced author and tutor.

News: The Writing Workshop is now a registered NSW Creative Kids provider. If you live in NSW, you can use your Creative Kids voucher for our term-length after-school and full-day school holiday workshops. Program starts 1st January 2019. For details, visit Creative Kids.

 
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Our fourteenth year of high-quality creative writing education

The Writing Workshop has been educating and inspiring young people since May 2006. We've worked and written with over 80,000 participants from five years old to school-leavers, and read over half a million pieces of imaginative writing. Our participants have won major competitions, been awarded selective school places and scholarships, written (and published) books, participated in our peer leader programs, achieved personal writing goals, found new confidence in their ideas, writing and presentation skills, invented worlds, brought characters to life (on the page!), asked incredible questions, stretched their imaginations, and had a lot of fun.

We teach teachers too – The Writing Workshop is accredited by NESA to run a range of professional development workshops in the creative writing area.

"At the beginning of the term kids always want to do lots of out-of-school activities – however, this is the only one which independently motivates her every week."  Year 2 Parent

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Published authors lead every workshop. Learn more about Our Story, Our People, Our Approach and Our Experience.