For the love of writing.

Welcome to PCWC!

It’s lovely to have you with us for an inspiring & exploring time of creative writing.

Peter Cowan Writers Centre (PCWC) is both place & space for those who love to explore their imaginations, their literary selves, and their writing pleasures. Whether your creative writing is for the thrill of it, you are developing a writing career, or you are an established writer, PCWC is a place to build opportunity around your creative writing.

PCWC’s members explore all forms of creative writing: flash fiction, short story, fictional novel (both genre & literary), children’s, young readers, and young adult, memoir, biography, autobiography, personal essay, screen, theatre, creative non-fiction, and poetry forms.

You might be starting out, discovering the joys of writing, or you may have been enjoying writing for some time, whatever your circumstances or background PCWC welcomes you. Engaging with other writers builds skill and craft through shared knowledge and connection. Bring pen and paper, or laptop, and come along to our groups, classes, workshops, or events and say hello. We’d love to see you here exploring your potentials!

PCWC Notes:

From time-to-time PCWC holds special events. These are announced here.

THE SECTOR SESSIONS 2024.

Next Session:

In conversation with popular authors Brooke Dunnell & Tess Woods.

Sunday June 9. 11am - 12noon. Part of Love to read Local week! June 2 - 9.

Spend an inspiring morning with Brooke & Tess as they chat about Brooke’s latest release, Last Best Chance, and all things writing from these two popular, and successful, authors. Further details are listed on our workshop page.

This event has been enabled by Writing WA’s Love to Read Local week with support from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

PCWC Members $5. WUWA members $5. Non-members $10. Bookings preferred. Click the link on our workshop page.

The Sector Sessions are a series of chats happening at PCWC in 2024. They coincide with our library open days and are a way for our members and friends to be across the many and varied moving parts of the creative writing sector. They are a relaxed, informal Q&A and they will happen, roughly, monthly. Updates will be posted here. Opportunities attached to the sessions will be sent to members via Writing Matters!

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Following our recent website development over the summer break there are still things being added to our pages which will take place over the coming months.