• Saturdays 12.30-2pm with Frankie McMillan.
  • CLASSES START UP AGAIN FROM 10th FEBRUARY 2024
Jump start your writing. In these sessions we’ll be using creative prompts and exercises to get you writing. These lively classes will be fun and by focusing on small blocks of writing will help build confidence in developing your skills. If you’ve never taken a writing class before or you’re feeling a bit stuck creatively, this small class will get the words flowing.  
 
  • $5 casual or $3.50 with a 10-class pass, which costs $35 and is valid for a year to use with any of our Centre-run classes.
  • No enrolment or sign-up necessary. Jump in anytime. Numbers are only limited by the size of the room so book to ensure a space as these classes are super popular. To book, email arts@tewhare.org or phoning 981 2881. Please note: you’ll need to book in for each week you want to come along.
  • These classes are not suitable for children.
  • All materials supplied.
Reading event with "the Eastside Scribes" regulars to The Creative Writing class, 7 October 2023
Guests in late 2023
  • As part of Frankie’s class on 11 November, AMY HEAD will speak about her newly released book, “Signs of Life.”TWO SPECIAL GUESTS will take the class in October and November: Gail Ingram will take “Political Poems” on 14 October and James Norcliffe will take “Ways into Poetry” on 21 October and 4 November.

  • Readings from the EASTSIDE SCRIBES is on Saturday 7 October from 1-2pm. This is a free event where regulars to the class will read their works. There will also be live music.

  • GAIL INGRAM: Political poems – where the personal collides with power and the policies of the day, how to seamlessly word-weave these two parallel worlds in a poem. Study some excellent examples of political poems from Aotearoa and use these as models for writing your own.
  • JAMES NORCLIFFE: Ways into Poetry – two or three poems illustrating aspects of poetry will be discussed and these will be used as models for students’ own work. Norcliffe is a poet, novelist, editor and educator. He has published eleven collections of poetry, and over a dozen novels for young people. Last year he was awarded the NZ Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in poetry, and earlier this year the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal.
  • Regular tutor FRANKIE McMILLAN will take the class on 28 October and again from 11 November – 16 December.