Here's your chance to write an article and get published! Our courses run all the time, all year round. Sign up and start your one-on-one training whenever you want.

Find out how to:
- come up with article ideas
- pitch stories to editors
- research and write a publishable article
- run a professional business as a freelance writer

You will get:
- detailed expert feedback on your writing
- rigorous training in magazine writing skills
- individual attention and prompt assessments.

Course details:
Students must complete:

-10 writing exercises (10 for assessment and feedback)
-one quiz on magazine industry protocol
-one query letter
-one full-length magazine article of publishable quality

Admission requirements:

-Basic writing skills are essential
-Computer skills, email and internet access required
-No previous tertiary qualification required

Tutors:

Karin Schimke was a political writer for The Star and The Cape Times before turning to freelancing in 2000. She writes for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and recently released a book called "Fabulously 40 and Beyond", co-written with Margie Orford. She also writes short stories and poetry.

Leoni Benghiat majored in communications and English literature and has been a freelance non-fiction writer, journalist and photojournalist since 1994. She has a solid international client base of more than 60 magazines and newspapers, including Reader's Digest, Marie Claire, Men's Health, De Kat and Insig, and Beeld, Saturday Star, and Sunday Times.

Prior to freelancing, she was a newspaper journalist and deputy news editor with a national daily, magazine writer for a weekly family magazine and editor of two international trade magazines.

Lisa Lazarus is a freelance journalist for a variety of publications, including Men's Health, Shape, Cosmopolitan, Femina, Healthy Pregnancy and the Mail & Guardian.

Previously she worked as principal of CityVarsity for six years. She has a Masters degree in educational psychology, and currently also works as strategic business planner at Boston House College.

Course curriculum:

Module one - The genre of magazine writing
Module two - Targeting your market
Module three - Topics that sell
Module four - The ins and outs of the magazine industry
Module five - Getting the facts straight: research and interviewing
Module six - The compelling opener
Module seven - Body-building part I
Module eight - Body-building part II
Module nine - Closing off in style
Module ten - The Final Cut and Industry Protocol

For full course details, please visit our website at www.sawriterscollege.co.za.

Venues

Date: 03 March 2008
Location: Countrywide
Cost: R2995.00

Date: 10 March 2008
Location: Countrywide
Cost: R2995.00

Contact: Candice Kotze
Company name: SA Writers' College
Telephone number: +27 21 531 6436
Email address admin@sawriterscollege.co.za