News & Views

This week we were stoked to do our first international workshops for the teachers and students of Royal Institute Colombo. On Tuesday afternoon Ed held a workshop for 50 teachers on how to create character in narrative writing. Then on Wednesday and Thursday we held workshops for Years 8, 9 and 10, a total of...

We’ve really enjoyed branching out into a new country, teaching some workshops to the teachers and students at the Royal Institute family of schools in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Congratulations to illustrator Liz Anelli for winning in the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards for Ten Pound Pom. Liz is running a fantastic workshop for the kids these holidays, Drawing Maps to tell a Tale on 2 October.

We really enjoyed returning to St Brigid’s and running a Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop with Year 9, who had some really cool ideas for stories. Thanks to Mr Evans for organising and the other English teachers. The feedback was positive too. Student and Teacher Feedback: “I thought it was very helpful” “Yes I found it...

Really enjoyed going to talk Year 9 at St Brigid’s, Lake Munmorah, about how to write Speculative Fiction Here’s some of the feedback from the teachers and students I thought it was very helpful” “Yes I found it helpful because I got some great tips from him.” “What if the sun disappears?  What if we...

Join us on 17 July between 10.30am-12pm at Harry Hartogs Kotara for a fun dinosaur writing workshop for ages 6-11. Numbers are strictly limited so please book soon www.creativewordshop.com.au/enrolment. Cost $35

Ed went to visit the writer’s workshop run by Mr Evans at the beautiful St Brigid’s in Lake Munmorah. Here’s what some of the students had to say about the workshop. “I personally loved and extensively enjoyed the writing activity as I learned so much about character building and starting a story. I found this...

Interested in haiku, short fiction, or memoir writing. Why not book into one of our free taster workshops at Westfield Kotara in May. For more details, click this link. https://www.westfield.com.au/kotara/event/5ZVLzOJ0OsIWwGoQKCAYQM/writing-workshops

We are proud to announce that The Creative Wordshop has become a learning destination for the Children’ University. So bring your passport with you to our workshops, or if you want to find out more about how to get a passport, check out The Childrens University here.

Congrats to Rhona Hammond from our Advanced class, one of the local winners of the Newcastle Short Story Award for her very funny story Socks.