The Novel

Saturday 28 July 2012 - Saturday 24 November 2012

Presented by: Carrie Tiffany
Rating: Early and Emerging
Type: Course

Saturdays, 10am – 4pm. 28 July, 18 August, 29 September, 27 October & 24 November

This course will encourage both early and emerging writers to work towards the completion of a novel. Lectures and discussions on voice, character, point of view, dialogue, place and plot will assist participants with the technical challenges of novel writing. Practical writing exercises will be used to encourage you to write and inspire you to stay with the project until you have a finished work.

All participants must be willing to workshop their own writing as part of the course and to read the novella Foster by Clare Keegan as required reading prior to the course start. This publication can be purchased through the book depository or from Readings.

Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. She spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in the Northern Territory and now lives in Melbourne where she works as an agricultural journalist. Her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, was published in the UK, US, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. In 2006 it was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Guardian First Book Award, and was the winner of the Western Australian Premier’s Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Mateship with Birds, was published in February 2012. Carrie has a MA in Creative Writing from RMIT and has taught at the University of Melbourne and RMIT. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Times, The Age, Australian Book Review, Overland, Penguin Summer Stories, HEAT and The Griffith Review.

Early birds receive 10% discount. Offer closes 11 July

PLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE HAS APPOINTED A NEW TUTOR SINCE PUBLICATION OF THE WRITERS VICTORIA PROGRAM BOOKLET.

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