After ten years with the ideas for his novel The Nancys in his head, it took our Faber Writing Academy courses to finally bring Rob McDonald’s story to the page, and here he discusses how the Writing a Novel course, his tutors and fellow students helped him on the path to publication.… Read the rest
Faber Academy Alumni Renee McBryde discusses how she came to be a writer, and how the challenge of writing her first book – a confronting and moving memoir – was aided greatly by Patti Miller’s True Stories course. … Read the rest
How does a book get made into a movie? Ross Grayson Bell is the perfect person to answer this question. Ross was the Developer and Producer of the movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, and is one of the senior judges for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.… Read the rest
Faber Writing Academy alumni Rob McDonald shares his second coming out story, and discusses finding his identity as a writer.
The Dunedin Botanic Gardens are beautiful. I sit side by side with my Dad in the café whose roof is a giant faded concrete sun umbrella.… Read the rest
Narelle Hill, one of our Faber Writing Academy students, recently completed our Writing a Novel course in Melbourne, and explains the changes to her writing while undertaking the course.
A lot of people, including me, want to be published authors.… Read the rest
Want to know what it’s like doing our Faber Writing Academy Writing a Novel course? Journalist Diana Jenkins shares her experiences of the course so far, what she’s learnt from our tutors, and how it’s helping progress her novel (and also comments on course catering & our eating habits!).… Read the rest
Karen Comer, a recent student on our Faber Writing Academy workshop Revise, Revise, Revise… shares her experiences from the course, what she took away, and how she’s learning the meaning of the word tenacity. … Read the rest
Our Faber Writing Academy scholarship winner Ella Lamb shares her thoughts on why she keeps writing, and the many other questions that authors must answer on a regular basis.
There seems to be an awful lot of questions aspiring authors must answer: what is your story about?… Read the rest
Our Faber Writing Academy Scholarship winner Kelli Hawkins shares what she learned from the Writing a Novel course, and how it has given her belief in her writing.
Writing a novel is such a big task.… Read the rest
Alexandra Joel, one of many successful alumini of Patti Miller’s Writing True Stories courses, has just published her memoir Rosetta, and writes about how a Faber Writing Academy course helped shape her writing from a journalism background and break down the writing rules she’d known.… Read the rest
