Fiction Feedback Clinic with Sophie Overett

Receive personal & insightful feedback on your writing in an intimate, supportive class environment.

This intensive, small-group session is designed for writers seeking feedback on an excerpt of writing (up to 2,500 words) from a work-in-progress fiction manuscript.

Critical comments will be provided on character, structure, voice, themes and more, to ensure your writing is engaging and effective, with a focus on feedback that you will be able to use and apply to your complete manuscript.   

Each participant will receive written and oral feedback from the convenor, as well as benefit from peer input by reading and responding to the work of all participants.

During the 90-minute online session, the work of all attendees will be openly discussed. Critique will be carried out in a respectful and supportive way, while being mindful of the necessity for clear discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of each submission.

Format & additional information

This is a short feedback clinic with a focus on writing craft; it will be held online via Zoom. This course is recommended for emerging writers but is suitable for committed writers of all levels with a work-in-progress manuscript.

Following your booking, you will be provided with instructions and formatting requirements, and invited to submit your draft work (an excerpt of writing between 1,500-2,500 words) for consideration. Bookings and submissions will close Friday 23 February. 

Queensland Writers Centre will assess all submissions and select writers for the course. If your application is unsuccessful your course fee will be refunded in full. 

As well as oral feedback on the day, the convenor will provide writers selected for the clinic with written comments via Track Changes (though not detailed edits, nor corrections as such).

Learning outcomes

• Receive personal, professional feedback
• Acquire critical skills in fiction writing
• Understand narrative structure more deeply
• Develop self-editing skills
• Apply knowledge gained in clinic to future work
• Hear feedback on other writers' work

About Sophie

Sophie Overett is an award-winning writer, editor, podcaster and cultural producer. Her stories have been published in Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, Overland, The Sleepers Almanac, and elsewhere. She won the 2018 AAWP Short Story Prize, and her work has been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Text Prize and the Richell Prize.

Most recently, Sophie was the recipient of the Australia Council’s Kathleen Mitchell Award for 2021. She’s passionate about storytelling in all of its forms, but particularly stories for the page and the screen. She writes across genres and formats, with a focus on magical realism, literary fiction and horror. The Rabbits, her debut novel, is the winner of the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize, and her first screenplay, All the Little Fishes, has been optioned by Cathartic Pictures.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info