Little Red Writing Workshop
1 November 2024

WRITE WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW about what you do know, James Galvin says. Write your affections, afflictions, and addictions. Write the holiness of your heart’s affections, Keats says. Write what eludes you in what you love. Write the Beloved in the world, in yourself, in your enemy, in the dew, your grief, the dry creek bed.

—Mark Tredinnick “Thursday Morning Manifesto”

You’ll write what you like, most probably—no matter what the poets recommend. But you’d probably like to write whatever you write with elegance and grace and power; you’d likely want to write poems or stories or memoir that stay written, that leave the language at least as lovely as it was when it found you, that keep on touching readers for years. Most likely you’d hope to do justice in language to the stories and moments and places and people that call you to write them.

Held online over one day, the Writing Masterclass is a crash-course in grace. It’s led by Mark Tredinnick, poet and nature writer. And it draws on Mark’s inspirational guide to creative writing, The Little Red Writing Book (and Mark’s twenty-five years of teaching writing).

WRITE THE WAY you would be loved; write the way you would be governed, the way you’d want justice done. Write the way you’d like to be remembered.

—From Mark Tredinnick, “A Thursday Morning Manifesto”

How to do justice to your tale, and how to recharge language, in your creative writing: this is what the masterclass teaches. The online Writing Masterclass is a gentle intensive in technique, and it’s a short-course in courage. Because Mark is a landscape tragic; and because, as the Chinese knew, no work of art amounts to much if half of it does not render the locale, there’ll be an emphasis on place and nature. Mark will also touch on lessons that great writing teaches; he’ll offer inspiration and practical guidance; and under his tutelage you’ll get to write some pieces and receive his, and each other’s, feedback.

The course works for beginners and for published writers: your passion for writing and your hunger to write better matter more than your experience.

Register here ($400 AUD).