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Editing and Enhancing Your Work

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Ellen van Neerven

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EMERGING

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Rewriting, redrafting, teasing out, pulling apart, focusing, and enhancing your work. These are all valuable stages of the writing process that often get left behind as we look for the magic fix-all editor.

A portrait of Ellen Van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven

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Suitable for writers of fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, this workshop aims to guide you on methods of turning a critical eye to your own writing as you go through the drafting process.

You will learn

  • How to recognise repetition and ‘literary crutches’
  • how to reengage with scenes and characters
  • how to enhance your voice
  • common grammar and spelling errors
  • formatting your work.

About Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven is a Mununjali person from the Yugambeh language group of South East Queensland.  Her first book ‘Heat and Light’ (UQP, 2014), a collection of interlinked short stories, won several awards including the NSW Premiers Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. ‘Comfort Food’ (UQP, 2016), a collection of poems, is her most recent release. Until 2016 Ellen was the Managing Editor of 'black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project at State Library of Queensland. She received the 2017 Queensland Writers Centre Johnno Award and the 2015 Express Media Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Young Person in Literary Arts.

Find out more about how Ellen goes about tackling the editing process and what writers can do to make their work appealing to publishers.

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Registration for this event ended on 21 September 2018 - 4:00
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