The Inner Life of Fiction with Emily Maguire

This writing course, The Inner Life of Fiction with Emily Maguire, will take place at Writing NSW in Sydney.

Whether you’re working on a novel, short stories, or starting fresh, this is a chance to deepen your craft and push your writing to the next level.

Each session of this six-week course with writer Emily Maguire will focus on a core element of literary craft, helping you develop new skills and a sharper awareness of your own style. Through guided close reading, in-class discussion and writing exercises, you’ll explore how sentences create rhythm, how images shape emotion, how voice determines distance and how subtext transforms even the quietest scene. You’ll also develop skills to revise your work with clarity and intention. The course is suitable for writers of any background who want to strengthen their prose, develop a more distinctive voice and gain confidence on the page.

Expected Learning Outcomes

In this six-week course, participants will:

1. Strengthen their understanding of how core elements of craft, including voice, point of view, scene, subtext and imagery work to create compelling fiction

2. Develop a sharper awareness of their own stylistic tendencies and experiment with techniques to strengthen clarity, narrative drive and distinctiveness on the page

3. Learn strategies for revising and refining their work with intention and confidence.

Participant Requirements

Pen and paper, or a fully charged device. Please read our FAQ before enrolling.

If you have questions about this course, please contact us.