Get Unstuck and Ignite Your Writing!

Name: Get Unstuck and Ignite Your Writing!
Start: 2025-10-04T23:00:00+10:00
Location: Magnetic Island

Schedule

Sat, 04 Oct, 2025 at 11:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Magnetic Island | Townsville, QL

WHAT: Workshop being held by TWPC
ABOUT: Exploring your creativity through writing can be joyous, wild, and crazy fun! Forget the boring ways you might have been taught in the past and become inspired by a take-away toolkit of professional tips and techniques to develop your writing. Designed and delivered by writing tutor and author of seventy published books, this full-day creative smorgasbord is suitable for all backgrounds and levels of experience (from those with an unwritten idea, to people who want to play with words, to others who might have a project they’ve already started - a novel, creative non-fiction, memoir, or a collection of short stories). In the supportive company of others, you will learn how to get unstuck, overcome procrastination and self-doubt, and tap into more original thinking, all while exploring and expanding your way with words and stories via a feast of exercises and activities.
WHERE: Jungle Club 41 Sooning St, Nelly Bay Magnetic Island
WHEN: Sunday 5 October 2025 9am to 4 30pm
COST: Members $120 Non Members $150
PRESENTER: Melaina Faranda
PRESENTERS BIO: Melaina Faranda is the author of 70 books, published nationally and internationally, a trained teacher, manuscript appraisal consultant, and an oral storyteller who performs in Australia and overseas, Melaina offers decades of experience with teaching writing, editing, and storytelling, and infuses her presentations and workshops with vitality, generosity, infectious enthusiasm, and fun! She has been engaged by numerous writers’ groups, schools, organisations, and literature festivals throughout Australia. As well as facilitating writing retreats, she has taught workshops and programs for Writing NSW, TasWriters, Northern Territory Writers Centre, Queensland Writers Centre, Outback Writers, Kyogle Readers and Writers Inc, and is an ongoing mentor for the Byron Writers Festival Storyboard program. Melaina delivers author talks and creative writing, self-editing, and story-telling workshops, masterclasses, and retreats to repeat invitations across Australia.