Delivery: Face-to-face | Duration: 1 Day


This is a unique and highly popular one-day course that teaches writing skills specific to the Tasmanian public sector. with an emphasis on ensuring your writing is active and concise, this course also provides a refresher/training in grammar and punctuation along the way.

Learning outcomes

This course will teach you how to:

  • Know the difference between good and bad writing
  • Write more vigorously
  • Avoid pomposity
  • Write to your audience
  • Write with more confidence
  • Critique your own writing.

Please note: This course does not cover individual agencies' preferred styles and writing conventions. Although it touches on ministerial documents of various types, and gives you the writing tools to help you, it is not a specific course about how to write them.

Who should attend?

All Public Sector employees involved in preparing information or creating documents for external and/or internal use.

Presenter - Michael Blake (Write On)

Michael BlakeMichael Blake is an award-winning professional writer whose non-fiction, fiction, journalism and poetry have been published locally, nationally and internationally. As well as working as a full-time in-house writer and occasional freelancer, he has taught writing across both public and private sectors for over a decade. His interactive courses are in high demand and are guaranteed to equip you with new skills that you can put into practice immediately.


Upcoming sessions

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Calendar 12 February 2026
Location Hobart
Time 9:00am - 4:30pm
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Calendar 23 April 2026
Location Hobart
Time 9:00am - 4:30pm
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Calendar 18 June 2026
Location Hobart
Time 9:00am - 4:30pm
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Calendar 19 August 2026
Location Hobart
Time 9:00am - 4:30pm
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Calendar 13 October 2026
Location Hobart
Time 9:00am - 4:30pm
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Calendar 8 December 2026
Location Hobart
Time 9:00am - 4:30pm
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