Meet Our Tutors
We are extremely proud of our tutoring team at The Writers College.
Our writing tutors are full-time, professional writers who have won many writing awards, including Qantas Awards, Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, the Reed Fiction Award, Philip K Dick Memorial Award and the Arthur C Clarke Award.
They are passionate about writing and, at the same time, are warm, supportive teachers with years of understanding and experience in assessing writing.
Fiona Walsh
Fiona Walsh tutors the Writing Articles for Websites and Blogs Course and the Press Release and Media Writing Course.
Rosemary Hepözden
Auckland-based Rosemary Hepözden tutors the English Grammar for Writers course , the Better Writing Skills Course and the Copy-editing and Proofreading course.
Ewan McDonald
Ewan McDonald tutors the Travel Writing Course, the Freelance Journalism Course and the Advanced Journalism Course.
Paul Dunn
Paul Dunn tutors the Writing for Video Games Course
Nadine von Moltke-Todd
Nadine von Moltke-Todd tutors the Business Writing Toolkit
Helen Brain
Award-winning author Helen Brain tutors several of our Creative Writing Courses.
Arja Salafranca
Award-winning poet Arja Salafranca tutors the Introduction to Poetry Course.
Di Smith
Di Smith tutors the Copy-editing and Proofreading course.
Andrew Salomon
Award-winning novelist Andrew Salomon tutors the Write a Novel Course.
Ginny Swart
Award-winning author of over 700 published short stories, Ginny Swart tutors the Short Story Writing for Magazines Course.
Marian Michaux
Marian Michaux tutors the Grammar Skills Course.
Donna Dailey
The award-winning writer Donna Dailey tutors the Freelance Journalism for Magazines and Webzines Course and the Travel Writing Course.
Susan Williams
Susan Williams tutors some of the Business Writing Courses.
Mandy Speechly
Mandy Speechly tutors the Copywriting Course.
Alex Smith
Award-winning novelist Alex Smith tutors the Write a Novel and Literary Short Story Course.
Fiona Ingram
Fiona Ingram tutors the Novel Course and the Advanced Novel Course.
Sonny Whitelaw
Award-winning author Sonny Whitelaw tutors the Write a Novel Course, the Literary Short and Flash Fiction Course and the Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Course.
Lorraine Forrest-Turner
Lorraine Forrest-Turner tutors the Writing Articles for Websites and Blogs Course and the Writing SEO Copy for Websites Course