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Reading Like a Writer

Where
Lilyfield Rd
Lilyfield NSW 2040
Australia
Callan Park, Garry Owen House, Balmain Rd, Lilyfield NSW 2040
When

Saturday 19 October 2024 from 10am to 4pm

Cost

Full Price: $210Member: $155Concession Member: $135

All writers begin as readers and in this one-day writing workshop, novelist and writing lecturer Belinda Castles will guide you to think about what we can learn from reading stories closely, with an eye and ear for craft.

Drawing on her edited essay collection, Reading like an Australian Writer, Belinda will explore lessons learned from brilliant contemporary writers of fiction and their favourite authors. Using these lessons and discussion of your own reading as a writer, we will generate writing ideas through exercises, do flash workshops of the material we generate in class, and set future directions for our practice as a reading-writer.

This reading and writing workshop is designed with the idea in mind that talking about reading with others who appreciate stories is an energising and practical way to fuel our own writing, and that the reading of stories can often help us to solve our own writing challenges. Expect to finish the workshop with a renewed appreciation for the stories you love, fresh energy and sharpened tools for your own writing, and story and character ideas generated by the writing activities.

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