Writers Victoria

Discover how to develop and maintain a creative practice through journalling, notebooking and observation.

Writing is not a set of rules. It’s about cultivating an art mindset, a creative practice, a literary life. As every stage of life has its own shape and challenges, there is never a right—or wrong—time to start writing.  

This workshop provides strategies for establishing and maintaining a creative practice through regular journalling and writing exercises and developing lifelong habits of observation and noting. These routines will serve writers every day, when inspiration hits, and when the well runs dry.  

We will cover journalling and notebooking, writing exercises, the everyday habits of observation and narration, and sustaining a creative practice over the long term. 

You Will Learn:

• How to establish and nurture a creative practice through reading, observation, and regular writing. 
• How to use notebooking and journalling to enhance a writing mindset and hone your writing skills. 
• How other writers have approached the writing life. 
• Practical strategies for sustaining a writing practice over the long term, whatever the circumstances. 

Suggested reading: 

Stacey D’Erasmo, The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry 

Steven Heighton, Workbook 

Adam Moss, The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing

Charlotte Wood, The Luminous Solution 

About the Tutor:

Kylie Mirmohamadi is a writer and academic from Melbourne/Naarm. Her novel Diving, Falling was published by Scribe in 2024 and was listed as a best book of 2024 by Guardian Australia, The Saturday Paper, The Australian, InReview and Good Reading Magazine. She has a PhD in History and is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in English and Creative Writing at La Trobe University. She was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2022 and her unpublished manuscripts have been highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award (2020).