Trainers & Speakers
Simon Clews
Simon Clews has been involved in all things literary for close to three decades now. For fourteen years he directed the world famous Melbourne Writers Festival and for the past decade he has headed up Melbourne University's prestigious Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers, recently renamed the Melbourne Engagement Lab. He has organised thousands of literary events, written for newspapers and magazines and is currently wrestling with a small digital publishing start-up that seems to have a life of its own. He teaches writers and academics all around the world how to get the best out of the only tool they have in their trade ... words.
Courses conducted:- The New Self-Publishing – How the entrepreneurial writer can challenge publishing’s status quo (2018)
- Good, Clean Copy – How good editing can make you a great writer (2018)
- The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…exploring the world of creative non-fiction (2017)
- For writers: Good, Clean Copy - How editing can make good writing great (2017)
- Walk & Write Workshops (2015)
- Communication skills for writers (2015)
- Preparing for publication (2015)
- Self-publishing - From idea to hardback, paperback or ebook (2014)
- Writing for Newspapers, Magazines and Beyond - Transforming an idea into an opinion piece or feature (2014)