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MWF Workshop: In This Essay, I Will

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Eda Gunaydin

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ALL

Summary:

Critically acclaimed essayist Eda Gunaydin (Root & Branch) teaches you how to weave together technique, theme and tone into a captivating essay collection.
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How do you weave together ideas, technique and tone into a captivating essay collection? Critically acclaimed essayist Eda Gunaydin guides you through the art of shaping a collection of your work, from posing a central inquiry and working a throughline into a manuscript, to building coherence through theme and voice and crafting individual essays using hybrid forms like theory and memoir. Gunaydin shares insight from her own craft as a writer and critic of class, race and diaspora, and the process of publishing her recent essay collection Root & Branch.

About the Tutor:

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian writer, critic, and researcher of class, race and diaspora. Her essays have appeared in Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books and The Lifted Brow. She has been shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Non-Fiction Prize. Her debut essay collection, Root & Branch, is out now.

Bookings through Melbourne Writers Festival: https://mwf.com.au/program/workshop-in-this-essay-i-will-6f17/ 

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Venue:

176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
3000 Australia

Contact:

Phone: (03) 9917 8463
Email: [email protected]

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