School Holiday Creative Writing
July 2025 Holiday Workshops
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Creative writing workshops for young people aged 6–15, face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park (Field Studies Tower in the Education Centre, Bicentennial Park).
July 2025 holiday workshops bookings are now open.
Book before 27th June for a $10 early bird discount.
All times are for Sydney, Australia. Prices are in Australian dollars.
July 2025
NEW Monday 14th July
Rhetoric and Persuasion creative writing workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
In ancient times, rhetoric was treated as a science, and no one has ever really changed minds with three examples and a strong belief. This workshop will help you advocate effectively for your deepest passions, as well as test the logical limits of causation and consequence. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring lunch, a snack (no nuts, please), a drink, a hat, and your curiosity.
Monday 14th July 10.00am - 3.30pm. $180. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
NEW Tuesday 15th July
Fantastic Journeys workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Quests, explorations, surprise twists, epics, and mighty journeys. Odysseys to new worlds or the centre of this one. Can your legendary characters keep it all together? It won’t be easy. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring lunch, a snack (no nuts, please), a drink, a hat, and your curiosity.
Tuesday 15th July 10.00am - 3.30pm. $180. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
NEW WEDNESDAY 16th July, MORNING
Future Inventions workshop for 6-9 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Invent the most useful machines in the history of invention: devices that make life fun, easier, more exciting... but what if things don’t quite work out as well as you expected? Write your own stories of new inventions that go whirr, vroooom, clunk, and (maybe) ouch! One break for recess. Bring a snack (no nuts, please), drink, hat, and your curiosity.
Wednesday 16th July 10.00am - 1.00pm. $110. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
NEW WEDNESDAY 16th July, Afternoon
Revolting Poems and Rotten Rhymes workshop for 7-12 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
With a pen in your hand and a head full of rhyme, create stories in verse, grotesque or sublime. Now is your time! Poetic techniques to drive hypnotic storytelling, set out epics of glory or destruction, and charm your readers with humour and fun. One break for recess. Bring a snack (no nuts, please), drink, hat, and your curiosity.
Wednesday 16th July 1.30pm - 4.30pm. $110. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
Thursday 17th July
Write Your Own Book creative writing workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
How to set, plan, build and finish your own extended story. Create atmospheric settings, memorable characters and gripping plots. This full day will give you all the skills and inspiration you need to write your own book. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring a hat, lunch, snack (no nuts please), drink, and brain turned to HIGH.
Thursday 17th July 10.00am - 3.30pm. $180. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
NEW Friday 18th July
Skilled Writers: This World and Other Worlds workshop for 10-15 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Create new worlds (past, future and parallel) across a range of genres, and people them with deep, realistic characters. Discover authors’ secrets to unlock new strategies for world-building and characterisation. This workshop is the most advanced offering in our holidays program. We offer new content and approaches for skilled young writers every holidays. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring lunch and a snack (no nuts, please), a drink, hat, and your curiosity.
Friday 18th July 10.00am - 3.30pm. $180. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
Saturday 19th July
Spy Stories workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Ssshhhh! We can’t tell you too much about this writing workshop because it’s classified — but this is the one for you if you’d like to dive deep into the information trade, meet smiling double agents, create mysterious devices and secret codes… and trust no one! Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring lunch and a snack (no nuts, please), a drink, hat, and your curiosity.
Saturday 19th July 10.00am - 3.30pm. $180. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Places available. $10 early bird discount ends 27th June. Book now
100,000 participants, thousands of workshops, focused on each child
The Writing Workshop began in 2006. Since then we've inspired over 100,000 participants – from five years old to school-leavers – and read over half a million pieces of imaginative writing. Surely this is a record!
We want each child to develop skills in and enjoyment of writing. We aim to make it fun.
"Thank you for all the positive energy you put into the writing course. You really have a talent for engaging young writers. My son had a great time and it's great to see him write outside of the realms of his comfort zone. He has come home writing and already I can see some development in the area of characterisation and plot formation. He has asked to do another course which is fantastic. It was wonderful seeing so many children with a passion for writing in the same room." - Year 2 Parent.
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The Writing Workshop takes COVID-19 seriously and will always prioritise the safety of participants, staff and our community. We are registered with the NSW government as a COVID-Safe business and follow NSW Health rules and venue (Sydney Olympic Park Authority) requirements.