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Look at environmental journalism from the success of its pioneers to the difficulties contemporary journalists face today. Learn the essentials of literary non-fiction, how to identify a compelling and original angle, how to approach research and interviews.

Gain insights on how to improve your craft and make your writing honest and engaging.

You will learn

  • about environmental journalism today: who’s doing it and what are the issues?
  • how to develop an original idea and interesting angle for environmental non-fiction
  • how to research, understand the data & interviewing techniques
  • about the write-up: revision and the craft
  • about getting published

This workshop develops employment-related skills.

About Anna Krien

Anna Krien is the author of ‘Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport’, ‘Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests’ and ‘Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals’. Anna's work has been published in ‘The Monthly’, ‘The Age’, ‘The Big Issue’, ‘The Best Australian Essays’, ‘The Best Australian Stories’, ‘Griffith Review’, ‘Frankie’ and ‘Dazed & Confused’.

Read our Q&A with Anna on why climate change journalism needs to evolve.

Summer School

Read more about our Summer School workshops:

Summer School: Writing Romance, 13 January
Summer School: Writing TV Drama, 14 January
Summer School: Creating an Author Platform, 15 January
Summer School: Writing and Your Body, 16 January
Summer School: Writing the end of the world, 17 January
Summer School: Intro to Memoir, 18 January
Summer School: Fictive Expressions, 19 January
Summer School: The Ethics of Using Real Stories in Fiction, 20 January
Summer School: Insight into Editing, 21 January
Summer School: DIY Podcasts, 22 January
Summer School: Your Digital Publishing Options, 23 January
Summer School: The Big Picture: children's books with a social conscience, 24 January
Summer School: Poetry: The Foundations, 25 January

When
12 January 2017 from 10:00 AM to  4:00 PM
Event Fee(s)
Member A$145.00
Concession Member A$135.00
Non-member A$195.00
Events
Course Code 171ENF
Free/Paid Paid
Region Melbourne (CBD)
With Anna Krien
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A portrait of Anna Krien. Credit: Jesse Marlow

Image Caption Anna Krien, credit Jesse Marlow
Rating Early, Emerging
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A portrait of Anna Krien. Credit: Jesse Marlow