WRITE OF PASSAGE
Aim high, shoot straight
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THE WRITE ROAD
An award-winning writing initiative for everyday health and wellbeing.
We offer writing motivation, guidance and support for new and unpublished writers.
Facilitator Stephanie Dale is an award-winning journalist and author who has pioneered writing for wellbeing in the Australian Outback. In 2014, she founded The Write Road, a proactive mental health initiative for people who are geographically isolated. Stephanie has worked with numerous communities facing loss and trauma, including drought and bushfires.
Our workshops are suitable for all people who are isolated – geographically, institutionally, socially, culturally.
MORE ONLINE COURSES COMING SOON!
The Write Road facilitator Stephanie Dale
Journalist, author & traveling writer. Just about everyone needs a hand getting started on their writing. #youcanwrite - and Steph can help.
ONLINE COURSES
The Write Road ONLINE will be rolled out over coming months. For more information about courses and workshops we have available now, email yourstory@thewriteroad.com.au.
WRITING 4 WELLBEING
The research is in: writing is good for you, body mind and spirit - all for the cost of a pen and paper. Stay in touch through our community newsletter. Click on the green arrow to the right.
How to write your book!
FREE ebook
Book writing guide for new writers
#youcanwrite
“I know, right? You’ve got this book bottled up inside you that won’t let you go. And deep down you’re excited by the possibility of sharing your special wisdom with the world!
To be honest, I know what it’s like – and I know it’s also overwhelming, even terrifying, because you haven’t got a clue how to begin and you don’t have time anyway and it won’t leave you alone and what if ….
That’s why I wrote this little book – to help you to start, because here’s what I know thanks to a thousand people just like you:
“If the longing is there, so too is the ability.”
Stephanie Dale, The Write Road
THE WRITE ROAD
Tell your story, your way
EVERYDAY WRITING
A series of writing workshops for everyday wellbeing. Everyday Writing includes our flagship workshop, Song of the Soul - an event that changes lives, as people claim the writer they were born to be.
COMMUNITY STORYTELLING
Connecting families and communities through the power of story. These workshops celebrate belonging, giving visibility and voice to individual and collective identity.
ADVENTURE WRITING
One of the greatest challenges facing a writer is telling a story that has been told ten thousand thousand times. These workshops open the senses to writing about the wild and natural world. See Walk & Write adventure writing www.walkandwrite.com.au
OTHER GOOD STUFF
A range of innovative workshops designed to empower individuals, communities and organisations to raise their voices in the public spheres of journalism, media, publishing and politics.
The Write Road offers a range of writing and communications workshops, all of which can be tailored to meet the needs of specific groups. For example, Creative Journaling can be adapted for high school students and the newly literate. Song of the Soul is wonderful for would-be writers as well as people navigating change.
Hover on the images below for more information about specific workshops.
Walk & Write
Let's go for a wander and find the words to express your connection to the world around you.
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Song of the Soul
A beautiful gathering for people longing to begin work on writing projects.
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Her Place
Writing and photography workshops that celebrate women's connection to remote landscapes.
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How to launch a political career
Australia is chock-full of people who are passionate about local values.
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Writing the Wild
Whose story is it anyway? Open your senses and let the countryside speak through you.
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Introduction to Book Publishing
Explore the advantages and pitfalls of myriad publishing options.
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WHAT THEY SAY
VISION
To build courage and confidence in new and unpublished writers.
Tell your story, your way.
Our vision is to get people writing,
Our objective is the resurrection of creativity in everyday life, as a priority for all people.
Far from ‘wasting time’ (the most common reason people give for not writing the story they long to write), taking time out to rest, renew, create is good for individuals, families and communities.
Research shows that writing has significant and measurable impacts on mental and physical health and wellbeing. A recent study in New Zealand found that severe wounds healed twice as fast in people who wrote whilst healing.
Writing can boost immune systems, raise spirits, relieve depression and even improve job prospects for the unemployed.
Who knows, writing may yet save national health budgets – it may even save a life.
Just about everybody has a story rattling around inside them, begging to be told.
Most often, people long to write a personal story, family story or community history. Some people have bold, ambitious stories hidden in their hearts.
What almost everybody has in common are the reasons for not writing their story.
The Write Road is dedicated to overcoming these imagined obstacles, exchanging their debilitating impact on the human spirit for courage, optimism and resilience. The writing, begun.
We are on a mission to empower people to tell their story, their way.
THE WRITE ROAD FACTS
1922
STORIES BEGUN
657
WORKSHOPS DELIVERED
147
TOWNS VISITED
184220
KILOMETRES TRAVELLED
BLOG
Why Writing Makes Us Brave
There’s nothing like a long walk to get to know the voices in your head. It’s hilarious really . . . until you realise those voices are shaping every moment of every day of your life. Some years ago, I walked across Italy and through the Balkans. I was heading to Istanbul . . .
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Walking & writing are acts of courage
The unknown is good for us. I know, right? It’s terrifying! At times, anyway. Even those of us uncommonly drawn to the Unknown, and its life partner Change, suffer moments of holy f***, what am I doing here! Or, its sadder counterpart, ‘why me?’ Walking and writing are leaders, both. Where one leads us . . .
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The Soul Longs to Grow - why writing won't leave you alone
There is a calling within you to write. You know it. You long to tend to it. You ignore it. You are not alone. In more than three years on The Write Road this I have learned: just about every human being longs to write. (And just about every single one of us needs guidance, encouragement and support to start . . .
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Walking & writing ruined my life!
The Camino wrecked me for an ordinary life. I’d pretty much failed that test anyway, however walking 32 days straight for more than 900kms – for all its agonies and ecstasies – left me with one giant impossibility: I never wanted to come inside again. No matter how beautiful the home, no matter precious the objects in it, no matter ... (fill in your story), none of it compares to a wild . . .
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WRITE OF PASSAGE - ONLINE BOOK WRITING COURSE FOR NEW WRITERS!
6-week book writing motivation course that will help you plan your book and get you started on your writing. Live engagement with your facilitator and your writing buddies. 8 places only.
Contact us for more information!
CONGRATULATIONS CATHIE COLLESS!
Cathie came along to a writing workshop 3 years ago to take her mind off the drought that had turned her Come-By-Chance property to dust. In October she launched her book of stories about Australian bush women.
Diamonds in the Dust
MPOWER MEDIA MESSAGING
Foundation media training that prepares you for stepping up your social media & news media game. It takes courage to claim your vision! And preparation to step out confidently.
Aim high, shoot straight!
YOUR STORY: Your life depends on it
“The purpose of The Write Road is recovery – recovering human voices that have fallen silent, recovering spirits that are suffering for lack of hope, recovering the will to claim what is rightfully ours.” That is: the right to raise our voices, the right to visibility - and the right to write. Stephanie Dale delivers the keynote at the CRANAplus national conference in Alice Springs.
WALK & WRITE THE CAMINO!
Wander & write your way along the Camino! We have two 11-day Camino walks planned for 2018, in April and October. Join us as we walk the ancient trail, stopping in iconic villages and cafes to write, pausing to reflect by the old streams and hilltops.
Visit us at Walk & Write for more information!
WRITING IS A WASTE OF TIME!
The most common reason people in our workshops give for not writing is …. the fear of wasting time! If you have a story rattling around inside you and you want to know why wasting time is important, read Stephanie Dale's editorial in Country Web.
Country Web editorial
CELEBRATIONS!
Congratulations Liz Chappell on the launch of her first book, Celebrate the Seasons: A garden memoir of New England. ``Your workshops last year certainly put me on track and I've taken your suggestions on board - I'm delighted with the production of my gardening book.``
Check out Celebrate the Seasons!
WALK & WRITE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS!
The pipes, the pipes are calling ... can you imagine, walking the old trail through the Scottish Highlands. 10 days, just you, a small group of writing buddies and your writing facilitator. New writers welcome! Join us, we'd love to share the journey.
KYLIE'S PHOTOS KICKING GOALS
Congratulations Kylie Fisher! Kylie won the Western Region Light and Life Photograph Competition open section. ``This all started by being encouraged to follow my dream after attending your writing workshop - thank you!``
Life & Light entries
WOMEN OUT WEST AWARD
This one’s for the storytellers of the west! Thank you for your support for our workshops, programs and events. And our thanks to Women Out West for acknowledging The Write Road’s commitment and contribution to community in rural and remote areas.
CAMPFIRE CELEBRATION OF STORYTELLING
A powerful event - the Campfire Celebration of Storytelling we held at Bourke's Festival of 1000 Stories. Random strangers reading the work of first-time writers around the fire beneath a stormy outback night.
Read the stories!
YOUTH MEDIA PROJECT
Our Youth Media Project delivers practical media training that empowers young people to take ownership of their relationship to the world around them. Tell your story, your way!
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TALK TO US
To discuss The Write Road coming your way or to book Stephanie Dale as a speaker
0422 138 103WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU
The Write Road is available to travel anywhere on Earth where people would like a hand telling their stories.
If you’d like us to come your way sooner rather than later, contact us!
We look forward to meeting you.