Making great writing: young writers’ workshops

Explore the art of writing and release your inner creativity in a series of two workshops plus a zoom catchup. 

Following the hugely successful Inaugural Newstead Young Writers Festival at the Newstead Arts Hub and the RedShed, Newstead Writers invite young people 15-18 years to be part of this exciting series of workshops with award-winning local writer Cate Kennedy. Dates: Sat 14 December 2-4pm and Sat 15 February 2-4pm, plus a zoom session in-between. Younger writers are welcome to apply as well, and we have set aside some tickets for older writers too.

Cate’s work has been published in The New Yorker, shortlisted for the Australian Literary Gold Medal, and The World Beneath was awarded the People’s Choice prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her work includes poetry, short stories and novels. Her two short story collections have been texts on the VCE syllabus for some years and she is in demand as a fiction writing teacher and mentor. She loves the structure and surprises of narrative prose and poetry and completed her PhD in Creative Writing in 2021. Cate is a fantastic teacher.

You will be supported through your eight-week writing project as Cate works with you, exploring the principles of great writing. 

The first workshop will be held in the RedShed Arts Workshop (Church St, Newstead) and the second at the adjoining Newstead Arts Hub (8A Tivey St Newstead).