English Teachers as Bad Writers Club

The English Teachers as Bad Writers Club is a partnership between VATE and the Bad Writers Club, a creative writing club formed to practice writing in safety, without judgement and barriers. In response to the success of our first in-person writers club, we are now excited to offer an online writing club experience.

The English Teachers as Bad Writers Club (ETBWC) is a space for teachers to develop their writing practice, to step into their writerly identity to hone their own creative writing skills. As teachers step into their role as a creative, they will gain the knowledge, confidence and enjoyment required to teach students to do same. Teachers can use the ETBWC and the community of teacher-writers that will gather as an opportunity to improve their instruction, interpret the curriculum and facilitate creativity in the classroom.

This will not be a passive professional learning experience! Participants will be invited to share their writing, participate in discussions, ask questions and celebrate each other’s successes (and failures). Light homework assignments will be provided to reinforce the concepts discussed in each workshop.

These workshops will be facilitated by experienced screenwriter and creative writing coach, Amanda Falson.

The ETBWC is a six-week course that will run throughout the first half of 2026. Each workshop will be held online via Zoom from 4:30pm – 6:00pm on the following dates:

Date	Workshop focus
Wednesday 18 February	Themes and finding your voice
Wednesday 4 March	Building well-rounded characters
Wednesday 18 March	Creating believable conflict
Wednesday 29 April	Plotting your short story
Wednesday 13 May	World-Building
Wednesday 27 May	Drafting your short story

 

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be emailed to events@vate.org.au. Cancellations received by 12pm five working days prior to the event date will be charged a 15% cancellation fee. Cancellations received after this will receive NO REFUND. Registrations can, however, be transferred to another staff member. Please email events@vate.org.au the details. If you do not attend and have not notified VATE according to the above policy, you will receive no refund.  Please note: If this event is cancelled due to COVID government or venue restrictions, you will receive a full refund.