Making Your Book Work with Valerie Parv AM

Harry Hartog Bookseller, ANU Australian National University, 153-11 University Avenue, Acton, ACT, Australia

From the event listing: Don’t know the right place to start? Have plot holes in the middle? You don’t need a formula, you need a road map – how to make one that leaves you free to write your story, your way. Discover selling secrets to push your writing further […]

$254.10

GHOST BIRD book launch.

Muse EAST Hotel, 69 Canberra Ave, Kingston, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Lisa Fuller will be launching her book, Ghost Bird, at Muse Canberra. Register at the website to attend.

Double book launch.

Harry Hartog Bookseller Westfield Woden, Keltie Street, Phillip, AT, Australia

Double book launch for The Year of the Fruitcake and The Bloodwolf War.

ACT Writing & Publishing Awards Night

The Street Theatre 15 Childers Street, Canberra City, ACT, Australia

From the website: Please join us for a fun-filled evening to celebrate the 2019 ACT Writing & Publishing award winners, and the end of a wonderful year. This year we're pleased to be hosting our night of nights at The Street Theatre in Canberra city. Ticket bookings are required.

$30

Something in Lake Burley Griffin

National Library of Australia Parkes Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia

From the website: Join two world-class writers and old friends, Garth Nix and Felicity Packard, as they chat about their childhood and university years growing up in Canberra; their work; and their most recent venture together, a pilot for Amazon Studios adapted from Garth’s Old Kingdom books.

In Conversation with Kaaron Warren

Harry Hartog Bookseller, ANU Australian National University, 153-11 University Avenue, Acton, ACT, Australia

From the website: Join Kaaron Warren in conversation with Paul Mannering and Joseph Ashley Smith as they discuss her critically-acclaimed new novella, Into Bones Like Oil.

Romance Writing – Love, Lust and Longing

CIT Bruce 35 Vowels Crescent, Bruce, ACT, Australia

From the website: Are you ready for romance? This one-day, writing intensive boot camp puts the best-selling genre under the spotlight. You’ll learn about the four pillars of romance, how to create tension (even when the reader is confident of a Happy Ever After) and how to write convincing relationships [...]

$175

BookFest – Goulburn Reader Writer Festival

184 Bourke Street Goulburn NSW 2580 184 Bourke Street, Goulburn, NSW, Australia

From the website: Come and celebrate all things books at the BookFest - Goulburn Reader Writer Festival. The Festival includes: Special guest author talks and book signings by Jane Caro, Peter FitzSimons, Sulari Gentill, Richard Glover and Markus Zusak Adults writing workshop with author Nigel Featherstone From Artist to Published […]

Swancon 2020

From the website: Swancon is WA's annual speculative fiction convention celebrating Science Fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction genres. We like to talk about books, TV and pop-culture. It is the longest continuously running science fiction convention in Australia. We also like to play quidditch, live action foosball and kitkat […]

$200

CoNZealand 2020

The 78th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Wellington, New Zealand.

NZD400