Interview Techniques for Non-Fiction Writers
Date:
With:
Tom Doig
Rating:
EARLY, EMERGING
Summary:
Have you ever wondered how some writers get their interview subjects to tell the most candid, outrageous and profound stories? Discuss the tricks of the recorded-conversation trade, giving you practical skills to improve your interviews: strategies for winning the trust of complete strangers, techniques to keep people talking for hours, ways to collaborate with interviewees to improve your drafts, and much more.
Details
Note that this workshop focuses on interviewing “real people”, not celebrities or politicians.
This workshop has been rescheduled and is now taking place on a different date to the one originally advertised. Please note that the information on this page is correct and up-to-date.
You will learn
- techniques for securing interviews
- an intro to narrative journalism interviewing techniques
- an intro to oral history interviewing techniques
- strategies for follow-up interviews
- about turning interview transcripts into narrative.
This workshop develops employment-related skills.
About Tom Doig
Tom Doig is a journalist, oral historian and academic. He is the author of ‘Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure’ (Allen & Unwin, 2013) and ‘The Coal Face’ (Penguin, 2015), about the catastrophic 2014 Hazelwood Mine fire. 'The Coal Face' was joint winner of the 2015 Oral History Victoria Education Innovation Award. Tom is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University, writing a longer book about the Hazelwood Mine fire, to be published in 2017.
Read the Q&A with Tom on collecting narrative readymades.