Writing Workshops based on the format of
Convent Girls
With author Jane Tolerton
Limited places available
WEEKEND WRITING WORKSHOPS, 2025
Jane’s 1994 bestseller Convent Girls consisted of first- person pieces ‘by’ well-known New Zealand women talking about their school days with the nuns.
Three years later, using the same process of interviewing women and shaping these interviews into first-person
pieces of about 5000 words, Jane produced Sixties Chicks.
Would you like to follow the same process and end up with a piece similar to those in these books?
THE SCHEDULE
2025
Friday arrival
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- Welcome talk
- Dinner
- Set task for following day
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Every weekend in
August
Saturday
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- Breakfast (self service)
- Writing task
- Individual time slot with Jane
- Dinner with guest
Sunday
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- Morning tea time - Breakfast (self-serve)
- Presentations at 11am with morning tea
- Checkout by 2pm but you can leave luggage for collection later in the day
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Dates
1-3rd, 8-10th, 15-17th, 22-24th, 29-31st
ABOUT YOUR STAY
Booklovers B&B is a late-1800s Victorian villa nestled in Mount Victoria in the heart of Wellington's inner city.
2 beds (twin share) = $300 per night
Queen bed room = $400 per night
Optional extra nights available
Includes workshop, meals & accommodation.
Available weekends throughout August 2025.
ABOUT JANE
Jane Tolerton is the award-winning and bestselling author of Ettie, Convent Girls and half a dozen other books. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where she runs Booklovers B&B to fund historical research and writing.
Jane began her career with a degree in History and American Studies and a Diploma in Journalism from the University of Canterbury. She has won the Dulux News Award, the Cowan Prize
for Historical Journalism and a New Zealand Book Award.
She and Nicholas Boyack set up the World War I Oral History Archive; interviewed 84 veterans; and published In the Shadow of War and An Awfully Big Adventure.
Having been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to history in 2016, Jane became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society two years later.
ENQUIRIES & BOOKINGS
For any enquiries, or to book your workshop dates - please contact Jane Tolerton:
Phone: 027-257-7835 | Email: info@booklovers.co.nz