We all have a story to tell, but is it memoir, or is it mere confession?
Join award-winning author Patti Miller in conversation with author, editor and podcast host Irma Gold for an inspiring and engaging conversation on life writing and explore the questions that inevitably crop up when you write about your life. When do memoir breaks the borders into fiction? How to survive truth telling and keep your friends and family? Who wants to hear your story?
Details
- When: Saturday 22 February, 5–6pm
- Where: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
- With: Patti Miller
About the Tutor
Patti Miller is the author of ten books, including Australia’s best-selling life writing texts, Writing Your Life, The Memoir Book and Writing True Stories (A&U) as well as a novel Child (A&U) and The Last One Who Remembers (A&U) Whatever The Gods Do (Random House), the critically acclaimed The Mind of a Thief, (UQP) long and short-listed for a number of prizes, winner of the 2013 NSW Premier’s Prize for History, Ransacking Paris (UQP) The Joy of High Places (NewSouth), True Friends (UQP) and her latest, the new edition of Writing True Stories out June 2024. She is published regularly in national newspapers, magazines and literary journals. She is Australia’s most successful memoir teacher and has taught life writing around Australia since 1991. She gives writing courses in Paris and London each year. Nearly 70 of her former students have been commercially published.
Irma Gold is an award-winning author and editor. Her debut novel, The Breaking, won the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship and the Canberra Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the ACT Notable Award for Fiction. Her short fiction has been widely published in literary journals, and her acclaimed collection is Two Steps Forward. Her next novel is forthcoming in 2025. Irma is also the author of five children’s books, and is the founder and co-host of the writing podcast, Secrets from the Green Room. She works full time as a freelance editor for individual authors and a range of publishers.