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 – 2024 season

Popular Fiction – with Nicky Pellegrino

6pm – 8pm, Tuesday 19 November

Writing novels that are easy to read isn’t easy to do. Commercial fiction needs to grip the reader from the very first page and hold them until the last. Nicky Pellegrino looks at some of the principles of crafting popular fiction – the dos and don’ts, the absolute must-haves and the things she has learned over a long career as a published writer that she wishes she had known right at the beginning.

Nicky Pellegrino consistently tops the New Zealand best-seller charts with her novels that explore relationships and entwine multiple characters in emotional, dramatic circumstances. With 15 novels to date published by Hachette, her stories have been translated into 12 foreign languages and are sold around the world. Her latest novel is called Marry Me in Italy. She is also a best-selling author of non-fiction with her book on menopause, Don’t Sweat It, and an award-winning journalist.

Fee: NZSA Members – $35. (Non-members – $65)

Bookings have closed as the workshop has reached capacity.

Get your accounting questions answered
– with Anna Scott

6:30pm–8:30pm, Wed, 20 Nov

Anna Scott, an experienced chartered accountant will share key issues to do with accounts including basic record keeping – how software like xero can help you, what IRD needs, when do you need to register for GST (and what does that mean), what is a deductible expense? When do you start paying tax?

And any other questions you might have.

This workshop is a collaboration between the NZSA and SCBWI and available to members for a reduced fee. Fee: NZSA and SCBWI Full Members – $25. (Non-members – $65)

Bookings close at 2pm on the day 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.

“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!”