Do you like writing for fun but never find the time? Want to get started, or re-started, on that manuscript you’ve always wanted to finish and publish? Start with this workshop. We’ll hit pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) during three different timed exercises with prompts. We’ll talk craft and characters, the role of conflict and transformation and sustaining a creative practice.

The goal of this class is for you to leave with words on the page and key next steps to keep you going.

During this interactive class there will be chances to ask questions and discuss points as a group, if you want to.

What will we cover?

We’ll sit and write together to three writing prompts, after talking about what you’d like to get from the class. After each timed prompted we’ll reflect and refocus and go again: simply sitting down and getting the words down, even if they’re rough, is the best way to outrun resistance to writing. So is practice. That’s what we’ll be doing in this class.

This class provides as much helps as you’d like. These classes attract a supportive, calm group of people to write with and opportunities to write whatever you want to write.

Accessibility

Wheelchair Accessible Venue
Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Free Ticket for First Nation Attendees
Cheaper Early Bird Tix

Who will be teaching?

Marilyn Miller is a literary science-fiction author and the founder of Leviathan Publishing. A graduate of RMIT’s Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing, she appeared on the ‘Culture and Trends’ panel at the Emerging Writers Festival in September 2025. She is currently at work on her debut novel, Machine City 2050. Her short fiction includes Protection (Visible Ink) and The Fall of Evelon (Clover Press).

Marilyn also founded StudioPracticeForWriters.com, a hub exploring the creative process and the art of sustaining long-form work. You can find her latest writing and creative practice essays on Substack at marilynmiller.substack.com.

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