Rovenaa - literary writing workshops

Where writers learn by doing, not by watching

Writers working through structured literary exercises in a Rovenaa workshop session
Craft develops through practice, not observation.
Our story

Started in 2016 because most writing courses talked too much and wrote too little

Rovenaa was built on a single frustration: writers were sitting through hours of theory and leaving without a finished paragraph. We changed the ratio - less lecture, far more actual writing.

Every workshop runs on assignments that produce something tangible. A scene. A character sketch. A reworked opening. Participants leave with work in hand, not just notes.

Across Australia, writers in different cities and time zones join the same structured sessions. The platform removes geography as a barrier without removing the sense of a real room.

9+
Years of workshops
Running structured literary sessions since 2016, refining what works and cutting what does not.
14
Active workshop formats
From flash fiction to long-form narrative - each format has its own assignment structure and pace.
6
Regions served nationally
Writers from Perth to Cairns participate in the same cohort with no quality difference by location.
38
Assignments per programme
Each programme delivers structured exercises that build on each other - not isolated prompts.

The people who design and run each workshop

Facilitators at Rovenaa are working writers first. They bring current projects, recent failures, and specific craft problems into every session - not polished slides from three years ago.

  1. Every facilitator submits their own writing to the same exercises participants complete.
  2. Feedback is given on specific sentences, not general impressions.
  3. Workshop formats are reviewed and revised each quarter based on participant output.
  4. Collaborative tools let participants annotate each other's drafts between sessions.
Portrait of Declan Oruafor, lead facilitator at Rovenaa

Declan Oruafor

Lead Facilitator - Narrative Fiction

Declan runs the long-form fiction track. He has spent the past six years writing and publishing short fiction and brings that active practice directly into how he structures assignments.

Portrait of Soren Valkonen, facilitator for creative non-fiction at Rovenaa

Soren Valkonen

Facilitator - Creative Non-Fiction

Soren focuses on personal essay and memoir. His sessions move between close reading of published work and immediate writing - participants rarely sit still for long in his workshops.

Participants engaged in a collaborative writing exercise during a Rovenaa session
Collaborative exercises run across every session format.
A writer reviewing annotated feedback on a draft during a Rovenaa workshop
Specific sentence-level feedback, not general impressions.
Writers from different regions participating together in a Rovenaa online session
Writers from six regions, one shared workshop space.
Close-up of a writing exercise handout used in a Rovenaa structured session
Each exercise produces something you can actually use.
Rovenaa facilitator reviewing participant work during a live workshop
Facilitators write alongside participants, not above them.
Writers sharing and discussing completed assignments at the end of a Rovenaa workshop
Finished work shared and discussed at every session close.