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Selina Shapland
Selina Shapland is a certified Author Accelerator Fiction Book Coach and fiction writer with a passion for genre fiction and story structure.
Since 2008, she has written two paranormal adventure manuscripts, edited novels, published 72 articles with Weekend Notes Brisbane, taught a character development class online, and attained certification as a leadership coach with The Forton Group.
She has presented for Brisbane Writers Workshop, studied with David Farland, Margie Lawson, Dean Wesley Smith, the Queensland Writer’s Centre, Australian Writers’ Centre, Romance Writers of Australia, and Brisbane Writers Workshop.
Selina is a member of the Romance Writers of Australia, Sisters in Crime, Australasian Horror Writers Association, and is an active member of the Author Accelerator Community of Practice. She has also a mentored fiction coaches in training.
Selina has a passion for supporting writers and knows first-hand what it takes to write a full-length novel.
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Selina’s Fiction Writing, Writing and Coaching Education History
Australian Writers Centre
- Show Don’t Tell Seminar - 2023
- Pacing Seminar - 2023
- Openings Focus Seminar - 2022
- Anatomy of a Crime: How to Write about Murder - 2021 - 2022
- Fiction Essentials: Grammar and Punctuation - Online course - 2021 - 2022
- Romance Writing - 2022
- Fiction Essentials: Dialogue - 2022
- Short Story Essentials - 2022
- Content Writing - 2022
Author Accelerator
- Certified Advanced Book Coaching: Fiction - 2021 - 2022
- Mentor Training - 2022
- The Business of Book Coaching - 2022
- Coaching a Romance Writer - 2023
Queensland Writers Centre
- Editorially Savvy with Two Professional Editors - 2022
- Blackbelt in Writing with Aiki Flinthart - 2021
- Writing Through with Andrea Baldwin - 2021
The Forton Group
- Certified Leadership Coach training - 2018 - 2020
Completed minimum of 92 Coach Training Hours (inclusive of 75 live interactions plus 17 hours of self-study)
Brisbane Writers' Workshop with Lauren Elise Daniels
- Mentored by Lauren Elise Daniels, Editor and Brisbane Writers' Workshop Founder - ongoing
- Family Ties & Life Stories: Exploring Memoir - 2022
- Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror: Otherworldly Writing - 2021
- Seasons & Symbols: Writing the Inner Journey - 2021
- Seriously Short Stories: Small Group Short Story Clinic - 2021
- Magic Realism for Rebels - online course 2020 & 2022
- Seriously Short Stories - 2019
- The Art of Travel Writing - 2019
- Speculative Fiction: Myths & Madness - 2017
- Polish & Publish - 2016
- Introduction to Creative Writing: Light Your Fire - 2016
- Fiction Blitz - 2016
- Writing for Children & Young People - 2015
- Women Who Run with the Wolves Creative Writing - 2014
- Seasons & Symbols - 2014
- Enneagram Workshop - 2010
- Introduction to Novel Writing - 2008
My Story Doctor with David Farland
- Writing Enchanting Prose - online course, no feedback 2020
- Advanced Story Puzzle - online course, no feedback 2020
- Fantasy Fiction Workshop - Oxford, England 2018 (five day intensive)
- Million Dollar Outlines - Face to Face course with feedback, Brisbane 2015
- Promising Starts - online course with feedback 2015-2016
- The Story Puzzle - online course with feedback 2014-2015
- Writing Mastery 1 - online course with feedback 2015
- Writing Mastery 2 - online course with feedback 2016
Michael Knost
- Internal Dialogue and Deep Point of View Webinar 2023
- Show, Don't Just Tell Webinar 2023
CreativeLive
- How to Get Emotion onto The Page with Lisa Cron - 2021
- Wired for Story: How to Become a Story Genius with Lisa Cron - Commenced 2021
Romance Writers of Australia - Member 2017-2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Writing a Whirlwind Romance - online course self-paced 2022
- Creating Unforgettable Characters - online course with feedback 2017
Opinions and Writings with Dean Wesley Smith
- Depth in Writing - online course with feedback 2016
Lawson Writer's Academy with Margie Lawson and various teachers
- Writing Body Language and Dialogue Cues Like a Psychologist - online course with feedback and peer editing/critique - 2017
- Deep Editing, Rhetorical Devices and More - online course with feedback and peer editing/critique 2017
- Visceral Responses: Beyond Hammering Hearts - online course with feedback and peer editing/critique 2016
Article Writing with Krishna Everson
- Get-it-Write - 2013
Book a Discovery Call
Our discovery call is a no-obligation 20 minute Zoom meeting so we can get to know one another and see if we are a good creative match.