events & workshops

Dealing with dialogue and dishonesty: SOA Workshop
Thinking of different ways to build on your complex character? Join author, Maame Blue as she leads this session and teaches you how to create dishonest narratives using dialogue, character dysfunction and internal tension.

#SoAAtHome Writing Real Relationships
Join author Maame Blue as she leads this workshop showing you how to add depth to your complex characters by breaking down fictional platonic, romantic or family relationship narratives, looking at point of view, and exploring historical context.

Crafting Complicated Characters: Sydney, Australia
Do you love reading about messy romantic entanglements, fraught family interactions or the multi-layered relationship with self? Would you like help to create more characters that drive these kinds of narratives?
Learn how to create your own complex characters by utilising context and breaking down character motivations.

The Complexity of Kin: Writing About Family - Online Masterclass
Learn from some of the best genre-defying fiction writers experimenting with the notion of family, to help your own writing. Join award-winning author Maame Blue for this 3-hour online workshop.

Crafting Complex Characters
During this one day online session, attendees will be given the space to pull from their own internal worlds and knowledge of working with people one-on-one, to take part in creative writing lessons that will teach them how to create authentic, multi-layered characters on the page. This will be especially valuable to members who want an alternative creative outlet for taking care of their own wellbeing as practitioners outside of the consulting room.
This event will include the following:
Incorporating self-perception into your character creation
Looking at examples in fiction
Learning how to create context for characters
Writing our own complex characters.

Intro to Writing Complicated Relationships with REWRITE - ONLINE
Are you interested in writing about complex relationships – romantic, familial or otherwise? This introduction to Writing Complicated Relationships will help you take the first step.