Children's & YA Fiction Writing Course
Writing for children is all about writing in a simple, fresh, vivid style. You will use techniques to feed your imagination, increase your creative powers and help you find original ideas for stories. Participants will be able to choose which topics they would most like to cover in-depth during the course. This 8-week course will be tailored to your needs, with each session providing a particular focus and opportunities for students to share your work written during the course. A collegial, supportive environment in which you can learn from the responses of others will be a characteristic of the course. Tutored by Janice Marriott, the course will offer insights, knowledge and opportunities for those who are absolute beginners to the pleasures of writing fiction, and also to those who have already written some stories, poems or even novels for children but have not managed to achieve publication.
Waterfront teaching rooms, Princes Wharf, Auckland
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The Creative HubThe Creative Hub provides a variety of writing courses, taught by some of New Zealand’s leading writers and teachers of writing. Located on Auckland's beautiful Princes Wharf, we offer a stunning location in which to have fun and learn new skills. We aspire to the highest standards of excellence, while preserving the sense of fun in exploring your own creativity. Our tutors and workshops leaders include well-known authors Tessa Duder, Paula Morris, Graham Reid, Yvonne Van Dongen, Roger Hall, Sarah Laing, John Cranna and former Penguin publisher Geoff Walker. The Creative Hub was founded in March 2010 and is New Zealand's first writing centre run entirely by professional authors and editors.
