Writers Victoria

In this in-person workshop and online feedback clinic, Hayley Singer will give you the tools you need to explore the rich possibilities of creative non-fiction and how to use it to tell stories that make a difference.

In this online feedback clinic, award-winning author Hayler Singer uses lessons from a diverse range of creative non-fiction forms to explore creative non-fiction craft techniques that will help you sustain your writing practice, including voice, pace, structure, research, ethics and development. You’ll receive online feedback on your project, enabling you to improve your skills over three months. This online course actively encourages sharing of your work with your other participants as well as with the tutor. If you are working on a collection of essays, have a few deadlines in mind for essay competitions or are working on a longer piece, this clinic is ideal for you. 

Workshop | In-person | Sunday 6 July: In this workshop you are invited to write towards, around, or out from within something that grips you, shakes you or wakes you up. Together, we will consider the ways creative non-fiction can unearth, question and re-imagine what feels urgent, astonishing or curious to you. 

Feedback Rounds | Online Forum| Due 20 August, 17 September, 15 October: In the Online Feedback Rounds you will submit up-to 1200 of creative non-fiction on which Hayley will provide specific and personalised feedback. 

You Will Learn:

•  Develop a deeper understanding of your research and writing process.
•  Navigate your own ideas in critical and curious ways.
•  Develop an understanding for the importance of drawing deeply on rigorous research.
• Gain some strategies for drafting and re-drafting your work.
• Gain an understanding for what methods for writing might feel right to you.

This is for our workshop and the Online Feedback Rounds. If you would like to book the workshop only click here.

About the Tutor:

Hayley Singer's first book, Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the dead, was published by Upswell in 2023. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize. Hayley has published essays and reviews in The Sydney Review of Books, The Monthly, The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Art + Australia. Hayley teaches creative non-fiction at the University of Melbourne. For Hayley, teaching, like writing, is about thinking deeply and carefully, with many voices. Hayley lives on the sovereign, unceded, lands of the Bunurong People. Hayley lives in a place so small it’s only got one road, and it ends at a cliff.