TAF2024 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR WRITERS
WRITERS' RETREATS | MASTERCLASSES
CRITIQUE GROUPS | PUBLISHING SALONS
TAF2024 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
FOR GENRE WRITERS
Sunday 3 to Saturday 9 November
Franklin, Tasmania
Join world-class program leaders, aspiring and established writers, and local Aboriginal community leaders in Tasmania's glorious Huon Valley to learn, make connections and write your story with confidence.
The Huon Valley is a land of natural beauty, artisan producers and intriguing stories.
The first week of November, it’s also home to Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival’s unmissable week of professional development for writers.
Join internationally successful authors – New Zealand’s Vanda Symon, RMIT lecturer Angela Meyer, journalist Poppy Gee and martial arts master Alan Baxter – in the historic village of Franklin for an unmissable six days of masterclasses, publishing salons and writers’ retreats.
Participants are also invited to join proud Melukerdee (Huon Valley) man Jonathan Berry, who last month became the first Australian to win the Mister Universe crown, to discuss respectful Indigenous representation in Australian fiction.
Why join one – or all – of the events in our week-long professional development program for writers? Because we’ll support the next step in your writing journey.
This November, join us in Franklin to make significant progress on your story with support from experts.
Leap ahead in our intense three-day or six-day writers’ retreats.
Learn new skills at our masterclasses, including how to set your publishing goals, get started on and craft your novel, and edit your work to stand out to readers and publishers.
Deep dive into the publication journey of four internationally successful authors at our publishing salons.
Join an optional critique group to receive feedback.
Consult members of the Melukerdee/Huon Valley Aboriginal community on respectful Indigenous representation in your work.
Enjoy a fun night with friends and fellow writers at the Mysterious Women of Crime Trivia night.
Leave our writers’ week with new knowledge and connections, feeling renewed and eager to keep writing.
Our 2024 Masterclasses are supported by the Tasmanian Government.
Links to:
the week’s program leaders;
the Tasmanian Chapter of Sisters in Crime Australia Mysterious Women of Crime Trivia Night;
the full timetable; and
FRANKLIN, home to TAF2024, is on the banks of the HUON RIVER
ST. JOHN’S CHURCH in FRANKLIN, home of TAF2024, is on a hill overlooking the Huon River
FRANK’s CIDERHOUSE AND CAFE, at the bottom of the hill from the church, offers coffee, cakes, lunch and refreshing ciders
Join us this year for a WRITERS’ RETREAT - this is a group session at TAF2022
Or an EXTENSION ACTIVITY. Here, TAF2023 International Writer in Residence, ANN CLEEVES, and TARWF Director, L.J.M. OWEN, demonstrate the element of surprise
Check our our series of MASTERCLASSES. This was a TAF2022 ANGELA MEYER masterclass
CONNECT WITH LOCAL PEOPLE AND STORIES. Here, local Melukerdee cultural leader Jamie Bantick offers the TAF2022 WELCOME TO COUNTRY
The otherworldly rainforest walk at HASTINGS CAVES is an hour by car from FRANKLIN
While the magical TAHUNE AIRWALK is less than an hour’s drive from FRANKLIN
Stay up to date on what’s happening at the festival.
Sign-up for #TARWF Updates
Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our festival is held, the Melukerdee People of the South East Nation, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
TARWF’s 2024 professional development program is made possible by partner Frank’s Bar and Ciderhouse and TARWF’s 2024 masterclass series is supported by the Tasmanian Government.
