Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians, the Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi and Jinibara people of the Sunshine Coast Region and the First Nations People of Australia and recognise their ongoing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and we honour the power of stories passed down unbroken for thousands of generations.

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians, the Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi and Jinibara people of the Sunshine Coast Region and the First Nations People of Australia and recognise their ongoing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and we honour the power of stories passed down unbroken for thousands of generations.

Sunshine Coast Creative Writing Institute

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Established on land that has held stories and their makers for thousands of generations, the Sunshine Coast Creative Writing Institute (Write on the Coast) is the realisation of a dream. Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is an ideal place for those who love words to find inspiration.

We offer a range of courses, workshops, and events focusing on a multitude of genres and run by established writers and story-makers who share the passion and value of stories.

Our vision is of an inspired local literary community; our purpose then is to inspire and support Sunshine Coast story-makers through a network of readers, writers, storytellers and community partners.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well, they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
From A Few Words to a Young Writer, by Ursula K Le Guin, 2008

Our board manages the logistics; our facilitators are there to help you bring your stories out of hiding and into the world.

Courses & Events

Nov 23
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Dec 07
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Dec 21
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Jan 04
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Jan 18
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Feb 01
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Feb 15
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Mar 01
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Mar 15
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am
Mar 29
Writer’s Group
9:15 am - 11:45 am

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Our people at Write on the Coast include internationally acclaimed authors

People

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Judy

I found the workshop to be a very good mix of information and practical writing exercises that can be put into immediate use…

Dan

This has been the most inspiring and useful workshop I have ever been to. Shelley was an engaging, humourous and inspiring teacher. Thank you so much…

Linda

I enjoyed the exercises and freewrite. I would love to join your workshops again. Thanks so much…

Georgia

This session was fantastic! No other workshops have been as useful…

Anonymous

I highly recommend Paul and Shelley as guides along the path of the memoir-writing process; they are able to deliver helpful strategies but also provide a lovely nurturing and encouraging space to explore our memories in our writing.

Anonymous

I recommend this course to anyone who wants to write.

Pete Goodlet

The Radical Memoir writing course showed the passion for writing is running wild on the Sunshine Coast. A perfect launch platform for Sunshine Coast writers.

Anonymous

Thank you. I learned valuable writing skills that I will have in my tool bag forever.

Jack McKenzie

If you want to explore yourself, even if you are not interested in writing, The Radical Memoir course is profound. To share part of your story with others is enlightening and engaging.

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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

― Stephen King