POSTPONED: Healesville: Writing Opinions and Personal Essays
Date:
With:
Elizabeth Flux
Rating:
ALL
Summary:
Where do you fit in the story, and how can you make yourself heard? This workshop will show you how to take your ideas and opinions and craft them into a compelling piece, whether that be a short, sharp article, or a longer, more personal essay. Over one intensive day, you’ll learn how to go from basic concept, through to choosing structure, how to polish up a draft, and pitch the final work.
Details
You will learn:
- How to pitch your work
- Self-editing
- The differences and overlap between opinion pieces and personal essays
- Different nonfiction structures
- How to take an idea and present it in its strongest and most convincing format
This workshop is presented in partnership with Kill Your Darlings and Yarra Valley Writers Festival as part of the KYD Regional Victorian Writers Program.
About Elizabeth Flux
Elizabeth Flux is an award-winning writer and editor whose fiction and nonfiction work has been widely published, including in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. She is a past editor of Voiceworks and Melbourne City of Literature's Reading Victoria, was a convening judge for the 2020 and 2019 Premier’s Literary Awards and is a past recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
Venue:
The Memo
235 Maroondah Highway
Healesville
Victoria 3777 Australia
235 Maroondah Highway
Healesville
Victoria 3777 Australia
Contact:
Phone: 90947855
Email: [email protected]
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