NZSA Webworkshops – a series of webinars to enable ongoing professional development

Featuring writers and industry professionals offering virtual workshops on topics such as self-publishing, romance writing, poetry, structure, short stories, pitching, contract advice, dystopian writing and the business of writing.

All Webworkshops are hosted on Zoom. Zoom is free to download

Learn more about what to expect in a Webworkshop in this article from the NZ Author magazine – Spring 2020

Webworkshops – 2025 season

Madison Hamill – Reconstructing Vividness: Working with lost memories in personal non-fiction

5pm to 7pm, Tues, 30 July

Memory is unreliable, sometimes incomplete and constantly reconstructed—but that’s what makes it such interesting material for storytelling. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to craft vivid and emotionally resonant scenes from unclear memories, confront memory gaps with creative framing, and discuss the ethics of digging up the past and how to differentiate truth from accuracy. This workshop is aimed at writers of personal non-fiction at all levels of experience.

Come prepared with a memory you want to turn into a scene or story (sharing this is voluntary).

Madison Hamill (she/her) is an author and editor based in Pōneke/Wellington, Aotearoa. Currently a creative writing PhD student, working on a novel at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington.

NZSA members $35 Non-members $75

Register HERE

Please note that the Webworkshop is held on Zoom.
Bookings close 1pm, two business days prior to the workshop or when workshop reaches capacity.
If you are unable to make the live event, all attendees can access a recording of the Webworkshop to view for one month after it is aired live.

Past Webworkshops

Melissa Addey – How to Make and Use Book Trailers
Elizabeth Heritage – Book campaign planning: media releases, pitching to journalists and more

“Can I just say that I am so enjoying these online classes – so much better than having to go out in the cold, wrestle for a park etc. Please keep providing these! I live part of the time on a farm and it is just so wonderful to be able to participate in these sorts of things when I am not in the city. Makes all the difference!”