School Holiday Creative Writing
April Holidays 2024
Seven Fabulous Workshops - Bookings Now Open
Creative writing workshops for young people aged 6–15, face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park (Field Studies Tower in the Education Centre, Bicentennial Park).
Bookings open for our April 2024 school holiday program.
All times are for Sydney, Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Prices are in Australian dollars.
April 2024
Monday 15th April
Myths and Legends creative writing workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Come face to face with the lion who sleeps with open eyes, create legendary wings of wax, out-stare Medusa, and return from the Underworld. Create and activate your own mythologies in this fabulous and fantastical all-day workshop. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring a hat, lunch, snack (no nuts please), drink, and your curiosity!
Monday 15th April 10.00am - 3.30pm. $170. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
Tuesday 16th April
Write Your Own Book creative writing workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Is your head full of Big Ideas? How to set, plan, build and finish your own extended story. Create atmospheric settings, memorable characters and gripping plots. This full day will give you all the skills and inspiration you need to write your own book. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring a hat, lunch, snack (no nuts please), drink, and your curiosity!
Tuesday 16th April 10.00am - 3.30pm. $170. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
Wednesday 17th April, Morning
Animal Tales creative writing workshop for 6-9 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Release the scary or hilarious beasts from your imagination. Tame or confront dragons, unicorns and all kinds of fantastic animals you will invent. One break for recess. Bring a snack (no nuts, please), drink, and hat.
Wednesday 17th April 10.00am - 1.00pm. $1o0. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
Wednesday 24th April, morning
Future Inventions workshop for 6-9 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Invent the most useful machines in the history of invention: devices that make life fun, easier, more exciting... but what if things don’t quite work out quite as well as you expected? Write your own stories of new inventions that go whirr, vroooom, clunk, and (maybe) ouch! One break for recess. Bring a snack (no nuts, please), drink, and hat.
Wednesday 24th April 10.00am - 1.00pm. $1o0. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
NEW Wednesday 24th April, afternoon
New Poetic Forms workshop for 9-14 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Learn poetic forms from around the world and through history. Create poems with epic heroes and monsters, or tell (poetic) tales of great journeys and places closer to home. One break. Bring a snack (no nuts, please), drink, and hat.
Wednesday 24th April 1.30pm - 4.30pm. $1o0. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
Friday 26th April
Skilled Writers: Authors’ Secrets workshop for 10-15 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Learn how to hook your reader with gripping plots. High-level characterisation and structural techniques for building challenge, tension and storyline. This workshop - the most advanced offered in our holiday programs - will give skilled young writers new ways of thinking about writing and how stories work, and new strategies for reaching your writing ambitions. Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring lunch and a snack (no nuts, please), a drink and a hat.
Friday 26th April 10.00am - 3.30pm. $170. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
Saturday 27th April
Spy Stories creative writing workshop for 8-13 year-olds. Face-to-face at Sydney Olympic Park.
Ssshhhh! We can’t tell you too much about this writing workshop because it’s classified — but this is the one for you if you’d like to dive deep into the information trade, meet smiling double agents, create mysterious devices and secret codes… and trust no one! Two breaks for recess and lunch. Bring lunch, a snack (no nuts, please), a drink, a hat, and your curiosity.
Saturday 27th April 10.00am - 3.30pm. $170. We accept NSW Creative Kids vouchers.
Bookings open. Places available.
The Writing Workshop takes COVID-19 seriously and will always prioritise the safety of participants, staff and our community. We are registered with the NSW government as a COVID-Safe business and follow NSW Health rules and venue (Sydney Olympic Park Authority) requirements.
100,000 participants, thousands of workshops, focused on each child
The Writing Workshop began operating in 2006. Since then we've inspired over 100,000 participants – from five years old to school-leavers – and read over half a million pieces of imaginative writing. Surely this is a record!
We want each child to develop skills in and enjoyment of writing. We aim to make it fun.
"Thank you for all the positive energy you put into the writing course. You really have a talent for engaging young writers. My son had a great time and it's great to see him write outside of the realms of his comfort zone. He has come home writing and already I can see some development in the area of characterisation and plot formation. He has asked to do another course which is fantastic. It was wonderful seeing so many children with a passion for writing in the same room." - Year 2 Parent.
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