WORKSHOPS

Join one of our Creative Writing Workshops

Writers Practice hosts creative writing workshops in Kāpiti, in the beautiful coastal town of Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast and in 2021, we’ll be offering workshops online. If you’d like to be considered for a scholarship please select the deposit only option and internet banking and then fill in this short form.

If you’re not sure what’s right for you or you’re looking for something residential, check out the Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat or get in touch!

The Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat
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Current Offerings

Ruby Solly credit Sebastian Lowe

WALKING BACKWARDS INTO THE FUTURE

Ruby Solly

2 & 9 JUNE, ONLINE

Look at different time scales across works of writing, different tohu or signs of time periods or time passing, and challenging each other to remove or recenter time within our writing.

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Sold out workshop with Mandy Hager

KICKSTARTER: GET THAT STORY OUT OF YOUR HEAD & ONTO THE PAGE!

Mandy Hager

21 & 28 NOVEMBER, KĀPITI

Whether you’re writing fiction, memoir or narrative-based non-fiction, you’ll learn how to centre a story around a point of view character, tying plot, character and theme together to create a unified whole.

Previous Workshops

Gigi Fenster

MEMORIES – REAL & IMAGINED

GIGI FENSTER

Pip Adam credit to Victoria Birkinshaw

SHORTCUT TO THE SUBLIME

PIP ADAM

Helen Heath Mark Coote

KEEPING IT FRESH AND FUN

HELEN HEATH

The workshop I did was a wonderful way to reconnect with my writing. The exercises we did, and conversations we had, sparked a lot of new ideas, and helped me to grapple with some of the more complex issues I’ve been having with my work. It was great to be in a space dedicated to creating.
Sinead Overbye on Shortcut to the Sublime with Pip Adam
RUBY IS AMAZING AND THIS WAS LIFE-AFFIRMING AND TRANSFORMATIVE. I AM SO GRATEFUL! sorry for all the caps but this is how excited and how jubilant I feel about what Ruby shared with us, taught us, inspired us with…Omg, just so good.
Participanton Walking Backwards into the Future with Ruby Solly
Helen is an awesome teacher, so generous with her time (and amazing crafting resources)! Fantastic group of creative people – it was an inspiring and fabulous day.  
Jess Nickelsen on Explorer, Extraordinary with Helen Lehndorf