Check out our tutors and 2016 Brochure

Prose Tutor

Helen Hagemann has poetry and prose published in Australian literary magazines, including Southerly, Overland, Westerly and Cordite. In 2004, Hagemann won an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship program studying with NSW poet, Jean Kent. In 2008, she won a Varuna Macquarie/Longlines poetry publishing scholarship spending one week at Varuna with Editor Ron Pretty. Her collection Evangelyne & Other Poems was then published by the Australian Poetry Centre's New Poet Series, Melbourne (2009). Her second collection of Arc & Shadow was published by Sunline Press, Cottesloe WA, (2013). 
Hagemann holds a BA in Writing and a Masters in Writing from Edith Cowan University, and has taught at the Fremantle Arts Centre for nine years. Currently, she is working on her third novel (The Last Asbestos Town) and a collection of poetry for children, titled Miniscule. 

Poetry Tutor

Shane McCauley  is an award-winning poet with seven collections, including The Chinese Feast, Deep Sea Diver, The Butterfly Man, Shadow Behind the Heart, Glassmaker (Sunline Press 2005) The Drunken Elk (Sunline 2010) & Ghost Catcher. His latest collection is tRICKSTER, published by Walleah Press (2015). He co-edited WA poetry, The Weighing of the Heart, also published by Sunline in 2007. He has taught English at Edith Cowan University, and has taught poetry at the Fremantle Arts Centre since twelve years. He has also received local and overseas Fellowships.


Why not join Shane McCauley and Helen Hagemann for some writing in 2016. Download this year's brochure for more information.  http://members.iinet.net.au/~helen.hagemann/WACBrochure16.pdf