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ONLINE FEEDBACK CLINIC: Advanced Short Story

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Roanna Gonsalves

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ESTABLISHED

Summary:

This five-month course aims to meet each story on its own terms while exploring non-traditional narratives and sharpening your narrative intuition as both writer and editor. Participants are welcome to table work at any stage of development—early drafts still finding their shape, or late-edit stories in need of forensic attention.

A portrait of Roanna Gonsalves

Details

Pieces of up to 1500 words due 11:55pm Wednesdays 17 February, 17 March, 14 April, 19 May, 16 June. Feedback will be provided two weeks later.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Honing narrative voice
  • Focusing on narrative design and the manipulation of narrative time
  • The sense of an ending: knowing when to walk away, knowing when to run.
  • Where to read and be read. Becoming familiar with literary publications in Australia and abroad.

About Roanna Gonsalves

Roanna Gonsalves is the award-winning author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP) published in India as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger). Her writing has been compared to the work of Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri. Her four-part radio documentary series, On the tip of a billion tongues (ABC RN Earshot) is a portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers. She has been an invited Keynote Speaker and panelist at numerous literary festivals and events, a judge on a large number of short story competitions and has been facilitating creative writing workshops for all ages within communities as well as at schools and in the university sector for many years. See more at https://roannagonsalves.com.au

Cancellation Policy

Venue:

Online
Australia

Contact:

Phone: 90947855
Email: [email protected]

Registration for this event ended on 17 February 2021 - 4:00
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