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MWF Workshop: Weaving Memoir

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Kris Kneen

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Summary:

People often think a memoir must go from A to B in a timeline that marches with a calendar. In this innovative memoir workshop Kris Kneen will take you through a different process of structuring your memoir.
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Details

The work will be a weaving of several different stories across different timelines that are organised by a unifying theme. This method is more like making a basket than building a wall and allows the author to highlight connections and repetitions that would be lost using any other method. This is a method that Kris has used successfully in their three memoirs; Affection, The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen and Fat Girl Dancing. It is a method that frees the author from the straightjacket of linear time and allows you to chase a theme through different parts of a life.

About the Tutor:

Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction including An Uncertain Grace which was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. They have written and directed broadcast television documentaries and were the Copyright Agency Ltd Non-fiction Fellow in 2020. Fat Girl Dancing is their latest book.

Book via Melbourne Writers Festival: https://mwf.com.au/program/kris-kneen-weaving-memoir-1cce/ 

Cancellation Policy

Venue:

The Wheeler Centre
176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000 Australia

Contact:

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

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