My name is Kelly Gardiner, and I offer masterclasses, weekend writing retreats, and short courses on a select range of topics, for writers at different stages of their careers.
You can find out more about me, my writing and my teaching experience here, and read what participants say about my retreats and classes.
I’d love you to join us for one or more of these sessions.
Bookings are now open for:
- Cultivating creativity (a weekend retreat for women and nonbinary writers – 13-15 November 2026). This retreat is booking fast.
Bookings will open soon for 2026 masterclasses
- How to interview a writer (March 18, one hour, online)
- Mean streets & high towers: World-building for genre writers (April 11, full-day, in person, in Melbourne)
- YA Today: Writing fiction for Young Adults (August 15, full-day, in person, in Melbourne)
- How to build a heroine (Date TBC, Full-day, in person)
Bookings now closed
- Transform your writing weekend retreat: three day fiction intensive (5-8 June 2026). This retreat is booked out.
Inspiration. Imagination. Transformation. Mastery.
Future events
Planned or often-requested classes include:
- The Writing Habit (full-day on building routines, habits & creative practice)
- Fiction fundamentals: Research for writers (online short course)
- Scrivener for beginners (online short course)
- Revising & editing for writers (half-day, hands-on).
Get in touch to be updated on any of these.
Past events
These masterclasses and retreats may be repeated in future:
- Writing unforgettable crime fiction (Full-day, in person)
- Create compelling characters (Four hours, online course). Part of the Fiction Fundamentals series.
- Make history: writing historical fiction (half-day masterclass)
- The writer’s toolbox: building blocks for emerging writers (An online course of four one-hour sessions). Part of the Fiction Fundamentals series.
If you’d like to know more, or express interest in an upcoming class, get in touch.
You can also subscribe to updates on new classes (no spam) here.
About the program
New Page masterclasses welcome writers of all cultural identities, genders, abilities, and levels of experience.
This overall learning program aims to be welcoming and inclusive, so some classes are designed specifically for particular cohorts (such as emerging or aspiring authors, or people traditionally marginalised in publishing); some are designed to be inexpensive and more accessible; some will focus on a particular genre or form.
Full- and half-day sessions are held in person at fully accessible inner-Melbourne venues.
Intensive retreats are held over a weekend at a rural guesthouse in Victoria.
Online sessions are held live on Google Meet, with live captioning available.
You can read more about how I approach teaching creative writing here.
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