News & Views

“I chose Ed’s class because I wanted the discipline of 8 weeks of writing focus and to hook up with the local writing community. I got so much more than that. Ed is a genuinely generous teacher, a little quirky and incredibly knowledgeable. I loved our discussions, the challenge of the writing exercises and the...

We’re stoked that Philip Salom’s brilliant novel, Waiting, which Ed commissioned and edited wearing his Puncher and Wattmann hat, has been shortlisted for fiction in the Victorian Premiers’ Literary Awards.

Ed’s essay on Literary Newcastle in the Sydney Review of Books’s Writing NSW series: http://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/fictions-of-newcastle-dusky-red-with-industry/

Fantastic to see so many smart young people talking writing in the Creative Word Shop last weekend. And lovely to get the following feedback from Christina at Octopod, the Festival Director: “Just wanted to say thanks so much for having us for TINA! Audiences loved your venue as did the NYWF team.”  

We’re very happy to announce that we are hosting the Younger Young Writers Festival as part of the National Young Writers Festival on Friday 30th September from 10-4.30pm. It’s designed for High School Students, features some of the best young writers in the country to inspire you, and is free. For more info check out...

It was great to host training for Primary Ethics in our Hunter Street Studio a couple of weekends ago and we’re also looking forward to being a host venue for the National Young Writers’ festival as part of Tina in October. It’s a chance for us to give something back to the community via these...

Congratulations to Ruth Myors, the Creative Word Shop’s first editing client, whose terrific memoir of her time as a missionary in Somalia, When the Lights Go Out, has just been accepted for publication by Acorn Press.