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.
Supanova.
PCWC is part of the festivities at SUPANOVA this year. Held at the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre on Saturday June 29, & Sunday June 30, 10-6pm, if you are off to this much-loved event come and say hello. We are at Stand 183 in The Alley and KSP Writers’ Centre is joining us to reach out to lovers of Fantasy, Sci-fi, Speculative, all forms of fiction! For more information see Supanova.com.au
THE SECTOR SESSIONS 2024.
Next Session:
PCWC has partnered with Writing WA to give PCWC members, and writing friends, an opportunity to learn about WA’s writing sector. Laurie Steed, Partnerships and Development Manager at Writing WA, is coming to PCWC and will be available to chat with anyone interested in finding out more about the writing industry and its opportunities. You can discuss your current project, get advice about potential pathways open to you, or find out about the publishing industry as a whole. Laurie is a wealth of information when it comes to writing so if you’d like to come along and have a chat email petercowanwriterscentre@outlook.com to book in a thirty-minute consultation with Laurie.
Available sessions: Booked out. Please email if you would like to be put on the waitlist.
Thursday June 27. 12 - 4pm
Thursday July 4. 12 - 4pm
Thursday July 11. 12 – 4pm
No cost.
Laurie’s third book, Greater City Shadows, was released earlier this year and is published by UWA Publishing. www.lauriesteed.com
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!
Festival of Fiction.
Saturday October 19. 8.30-4pm. Perth’s newest fiction event showcasing fabulous local and interstate authors, including one very special guest! For more details head to our workshops page.
Website Development.
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.