Verb writers group is for writers and poets interested in connecting with like-minded creatives, developing their writing craft and receiving feedback on their works-in-progress. This group holds seminars and workshops that focus on advanced writing techniques as well as the basics: grammar, metaphor, active voice and point of view, among others.

This group is wonderful for anyone who writes and wants to improve their skills on the path to publication.

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Publishers love commercial fiction; it’s what hits the bestseller lists, it’s what everyone’s talking about. And it covers many different genres: romance, crime, mystery, thriller, and subsequent subgenres. This devoted group engages in workshops of craft that can be applied to writers of all genres, such as writing engaging first pages, building tension, and character development.

There will be something in this group for every romantic with a pen in their hand and every writer with death and daggers in their heart and soul. ​​

Scriptwriters is the perfect group who love to write fiction, but rather in novel format, wish to write for stage or screen! And if you wish to adapt your novel into a screenplay, then this is the group that will help you do it.

Scriptwriters intends to explore the aspects of writing that are specific to all genres and types, such as characterisation, setting, dialogue and world building and therefore is suitable to writers of all fiction.

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Townsville has a lot of hidden children’s writers and Kids Lit encourages any children's writers of all levels to get together and share their experiences and learn from each other. Some members are published writers, some are writing stories for their grandchildren, some want to be published some are happy not to go down that track.

Each meeting has a specific topic that applies to children's books, but also to writers of other genres, so don't count this group out.

Emerge is for students who want to expand their skills, learn new forms of creative writing and gain the tools needed for any young aspiring author to produce publishable works.

The next Emerge Workshop will be held on the 8-9th of January 2019.

Purchase tickets here.

Purchase tickets here.