Applications close 8 August

Dive deep into the world of thrillers and crime fiction with Jack Heath in this 6-week online program.

The Writer’s Space Writing Group is returning to Katoomba with a free, six-week program open to writers with disability. Writers at all levels of experience and working in any genre are welcome. Spaces limited to 12.

Applications close 29 July

This 8-week online program drills down deeply into how to craft dialogue on the page, ensuring that each of your character’s voices is unique, shaping their distinct speech patterns, and working on questions about who speaks, and when.

Join us for a special online residency and enjoy the warmth and support of Varuna, IAC and the Shanghai Writers Association. Find inspiration for your writing, enjoy professional development opportunities, and build connections with other writers to sustain your creative project.

Do you sometimes struggle to prioritise your writing practice? Perhaps you’ve hit a block and you’re unsure how to progress your work with the tools you have, or maybe you’d simply like to learn some new techniques to take your writing to the next level.

Applications have closed for this program

This four-week intensive masterclass for writers at all stages of their careers offers the opportunity to get started on a new writing project or breathe life into a project you have abandoned or are struggling with.

Applications have closed for this program

This 10-week online workshop series with Roanna Gonsalves is a craft-based masterclass focused on beginnings and endings, points of view, characterisation, language and the handling of time.

Applications have closed for this program

Make 2024 your year. In this nine-month online workshop series Kris Kneen will lead a small group of writers to work together with the aim of each writer finishing a draft of their memoir.

Applications have closed for this program.

For over 20 years, Conor Kostick has been teaching his popular 10-week Finish Your Novel course at the Irish Writers Centre and Varuna are delighted to offer it in Australia and New Zealand for the first time.

Applications close 11 July

This small online masterclass for First Nations writers of all genres uses reading as a tool to sharpen artistic vision and ambition.

Applications close 13 May

An international online residency with writers from Ireland and Australia, held in collaboration with the Irish Writers Centre.