KATE FORSYTH APPEARANCES
2021
Tuesday 9 March 6pm for a 6.30pm start
Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell in conversation with Ursula Dubosarsky (1 hour)
Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell are sisters who joined forces to investigate the story of Charlotte Waring Atkinson, their great-great-great-great-grandmother, the writer of Australia’s first book for children published in 1841. A fascinating hybrid, Searching for Charlotte is a biography of Charlotte, the story of Belinda and Kate’s journey of discovery to find out about the life of this courageous woman who came to Australia in 1826, as well as being an exploration of family history and family myths.
Location: Level 4, 179 Elizabeth Street; and by Zoom
TICKETS
In-person (includes wine and canapés) Club members $25 / Guests $30
Zoom ticket Club members $10 / Guests $15
Purchase your tickets HERE
Monday 22nd & Monday 29th March – Plotting & Planning
PLOTTING AND PLANNING with Kate Forsyth
This course is ideal for: Fiction writers looking for more structure
You will learn:
The basic formula for all stories
Intuitive approach versus the analytical approach
The seven basic plots you need to know
How to keep your reader glued to your plot
And much more
$275
Purchase your Tickets HERE – FULLY BOOKED!
Monday 17 May – Monday 14 June – The Story Doctor
LIVE ONLINE COURSE
6.30 – 9.00pm every Monday night for 5 weeks
Diagnose and cure your story’s maladies…
This creative writing course is ideal for:
Writers with a finished novel, and looking to get it published.
You will explore:
How to deconstruct your manuscript and work out what needs to be re-worked
Whether the skeleton of your novel is sound
Techniques for effective cutting and polishing
Refining dialogue, description, images and metaphors
And much more!
Learn Online Live with Kate Forsyth
In this unique course, you will spend five evenings with internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth. You will have an incredible opportunity to learn from one of Australia’s best novelists.
With our Online Live courses, you participate online from the comfort of your own home in a live Zoom video-based classroom. Kate and your classmates are right there with you in real time.
Find the cure to your writing woes and be your own Story Doctor.
Many aspiring authors struggle to find a publisher for their work, yet do not understand what is wrong with their manuscript. The Story Doctor is designed to help you look at your novel with new eyes, identify your story’s weaknesses, and formulate strategies to fix them. You’ll learn when to add, when to cut, and the secret techniques to help you look below the surface of your story.
$695 for 5 weeks
Purchase your Tickets HERE
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 May – The Jugiong Writers’ Festival
Kate will be a guest at the Jugiong Writers Festival – a unique biennial Writers Festival celebrating Reading, Writing & Really Good Fun in the picturesque village of Jugiong.
Program to come
Please go HERE for more information
Wednesday 9 June to Sunday 13 June – Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival 2021
Kate will be a guest at the Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival 2021 over the June long weekend.
Program to come
Please go HERE for more information
Friday 16 – Friday 23 July – TRUE LIFE STORIES with Dr Kate Forsyth & Belinda Murrell
LEARN HOW TO TRANSFORM TRUE LIFE INTO COMPELLING STORIES
In this in-depth and intensive writing retreat, Kate and Belinda will teach you the art of personal storytelling while drawing upon real life in your creative work. Whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction, memoir or autobiography, this retreat will give you the tools you need to write with authority and authenticity.
The daily writing workshops will impart essential techniques such as character, research, voice, and the creation of the world of your story. We will consider the reasons why you might wish to draw upon your own or other people’s lives, as well as some of the dilemmas and dangers. Our class will discuss the importance of courage, truthfulness, compassion, and the personal interrogation of memory and motivations.
The program includes time and space for you to write as well as one-on-one sessions with both Kate and Belinda, and a day out in the glorious landscape of the Southern Highlands.
- Morning workshops and group discussions will explore character, research and setting, voice and point-of-view, story structure, and the ethics of drawing upon the lives of real people, whether living or dead.
- Afternoons will be free for you to rest, read, write, think, daydream and explore, plus a half-hour one-on-one consultation with both Kate and Belinda .
- We will enjoy one day’s break from workshopping, with a field excursion into the beautiful Southern Highlands to inspire you and enrich your stay.
- Evening salons before dinner each night will include readings of your own work, discussions regarding problems and fears, and sharing our exciting new discoveries and epiphanies.
- The final day’s workshop will discuss the writer’s life – how to write with joy and creative rigour, how to find the right publishing model for you, and how to build a sustainable career.
Please explore room options and descriptions here before booking.
$2,250 +GST non-residential (includes all meals)
$3,250 +GST private room, shared bathroom:
(Avocado Room, Indigo Room, Drover’s Rest Rooms, Farm House Rooms)
$3,750 +GST private room with private ensuite: SOLD OUT
Please go HERE for more information
Monday 16th August – Monday 14 September – History, Mystery & Magic
LIVE ONLINE COURSE
6.30 – 8.30pm every Monday night for 5 weeks
Explore the romance of history, mystery and magic in your writing
Do you want to write novels filled with the romance of the past?
Or with the page-turning compulsion of a suspenseful mystery?
Maybe you want to tell a story with that extra twist of magic and wonder?
Stories set in the past can take your readers into another world. But what tools and techniques can you use to capture their imagination? If you want to explore the romance of history, mystery and magic… this is the course for you!
$450
Purchase your Tickets HERE
Wednesday 8th September – Kate Forsyth & Belinda Murrell in Conversation
CBCA Newcastle event at the Newcastle Library –
Details to come
Please go HERE for more information
Saturday 18th September – Northern Beaches Readers Festival
Avalon Recreation Centre, 59 Old Barrenjoey Rd, Avalon NSW 2107
Kate will be appearing at the Northern Beaches Readers’ Festival – an event focused on connecting readers with popular Australian authors, that will feature some of Australia’s leading authors in panel discussions and more intimate ‘in conversation’ events.
Program to come
Please go HERE for more information
Sunday 18th September – The Heroines Festival
Details to come!
Monday 11th – Monday 25th October – Plotting & Planning
LIVE ONLINE COURSE
6.30 – 8.30pm every Monday night for 2 weeks
PLOTTING AND PLANNING with Kate Forsyth
This course is ideal for: Fiction writers looking for more structure
You will learn:
The basic formula for all stories
Intuitive approach versus the analytical approach
The seven basic plots you need to know
How to keep your reader glued to your plot
And much more
$275
Purchase your Tickets HERE
Creative Writing Retreat in the Cotswolds – Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Sadly the 2021 Cotswolds has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We are awaiting the situation in the UK before making any new plans. If you want to be the first to know when the retreat is running again, please contact Better Read Literary Tours HERE:
Join internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth for a week in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, at a writing retreat designed to help you re-discover your creativity and joy in writing.
This retreat is for writers at any stage of their careers, from those who have always wanted to write but never found the time, to those who are deeply immersed in a creative project and want to find the way to boost it to the next level.
Spend your mornings talking, listening, laughing and playing with words with Kate and your fellow students. Spend your afternoons exploring the glorious countryside of Oxford and the Cotswolds, a landscape that has inspired some of the world’s most beloved authors.
Discover Oxford, ‘the city of dreaming spires’, and have a restorative ale in the pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien first shared their enchanted worlds. Walk the streets where Shakespeare once trod, and read the curse he cast on anyone who disturbed his grave. Wander through some of England’s most beautiful gardens, and be inspired by the romantic setting of castles and yew mazes, mysterious circles of standing stones, and haunted manor halls.
This course is ideal for:
Anyone wanting to re-connect with their creativity and hone their writing skills.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Jenny Gordon
Better Read Literary Tours
[email protected]
