Welcome to the
South Australian Writers' Centre
Welcome to the website for the SAWC. Located in Adelaide, we are a non-profit organisation providing resources and support for South Australian writers of all ages.
Upcoming Events
7pm Friday 03 September 2010
Come along to Coriole Vineyards and listen to some of South Australia’s most exciting poets. There'll be a warm fire, wood-oven pizza and award-winning wines, while David Cookson, Geoff Goodfellow, Alice Sladdin and Jill Wherry read their poetry
10am — 1pm Saturday 04 September 2010
What are judges looking for in short story competitions? What’s the appropriate point-of-view to use and how do you best use dialogue? It’s about minimum words for maximum impact, writing and working with a theme, effective use of characters and conflict, intrigue and endings that’ll knock a judge out.
10am — 5pm Saturday 04 September 2010 — Saturday 11 September 2010
Consecutive Saturdays: Workshop One – Taking Off: starting points, strategies and new directions for first drafts. In the intervening week participants work on drafts. Workshop Two – Homing in: streamlining, strengthening and shaping early drafts. Vitality and presence can be greatly enhanced with skilful editing techniques.
2pm — 5pm Saturday 04 September 2010
Do you have a life story you want to write? This workshop helps uncover the heart of your story and find your writing voice. Whether book length, a pile of pages or series of vignettes it can be a wonderful legacy. Bring a notebook and pen and make a start.
7pm Saturday 04 September 2010
Classical music, poetry and wine ... come and listen to Rob Walker, Julian Zytnik, Mary Bradley, Jill Gower and Ray Tyndale read the poets that inspired them and their own poetry by candlelight. Harpist Carolyn Burgess will provide a gentle soundscape to the night’s events.
2pm — 4pm Saturday 11 September 2010
This is a chance for writers to get some professional feedback from established poets in record time. Unpublished poets are encouraged to bring two poems with a maximum of twenty lines. Steve Evans, Tess Driver and Deb Matthews-Zott will then provide poets with a critique of their work.
7pm Saturday 11 September 2010
Does poetry suck? Internationally renowned rhymer MC Delta doesn’t think so. He, along with Coriole winemaker Mark Lloyd, freelance writer Clementine Ford, poets Tracey Korsten and Steve Evans and Wakefield Press publisher Stephanie Johnston, will argue the case in this raucous, unrestrained battle of balladry.
10:30pm — 1:30pm Saturday 25 September 2010 — Thursday 30 September 2010
Six consecutive Saturdays. Writing for children aged 8-10 years: develop characters that will appeal, explore plot, point-of-view, language and humour. Look at writing for the book market, the children’s magazine market and submissions to publishers. Please send your expression of interest to the Writers’ Centre by 31 August.
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Wheelchair/lift access is available at 26 York Street, rear entrance. Alternatively, come in from Rundle Street via Caffe Brunelli to reach the lift. |
The SA Writers' Centre is assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory bodies.