Interested in Galah's "How to be a Writer" course?

We're taking expressions of interest for our pilot "How to be a writer" program.

The course will be taught live, online, over eight weeks in a small and intimate group. Each student will receive personal feedback from a Galah editor.

Here is the proposed course structure, but we want to hear from you before we lock in the program so that we can build the course you want and need.

Reporting

• What makes a story interesting?
• How to find a story.
• Planning a story.
• What a story needs in order to work.
• Interviewing techniques.
• Fact checking, attribution, bias and objectivity.
• Dealing with sources.

Writing

• How to craft compelling sentences (such as by using the active voice).
• Using the right tone of voice and style.
• Writing strong intros.
• Showing, not telling,
• Putting the reader first.
• How to structure different kinds of stories. 

Editing

• Tightening and cutting copy.
• Writing headlines that work across print and online.
• Spotting common grammatical mistakes.
• Using punctuation marks, including apostrophes, commas, hyphens, dashes, semicolons and more.
• Proofreading. 

The business of being a writer 

• Finding work.
• How to pitch to publications. 
• Word rates – what to expect. 
• Ethics, copyright and defamation.
• How to self-publish (with a focus on newsletters).

Please register your interest in the course below. We've got a couple of questions to help us make the course as useful as possible and we'll be in touch with more details when we're closer to launching the course.