All great writers have one thing in common—they are great readers. This workshop will provide strategies for purposeful reading and give you the tools to improve your craft and creative writing.
In this collaborative writing and reading workshop, you’ll discover methods for unearthing lessons of craft by reading the work of others with writer Sarah Giles.
Sarah will help you identify craft in the writing of others by, first, giving examples and talking you through her own interpretation and reading practice. Then, she will provide you with tools for close textual analysis and help you to utilise them to understand how an author achieves certain effects through their use of voice, perspective, detail, setting, metaphor, structure and other elements of creative writing craft.
You will spend time applying what you have learned to your own fiction or narrative non-fiction through discussion as well as reflective and writing exercises.
- When: Sunday 29 June, 10am–4pm
- Where: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
- With: Sarah Giles
About the Tutor
Sarah Giles is a writer, PhD candidate, and a sessional academic teaching to creative writing courses. Her short stories have been published in TEXT Journal, ACE IV, The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, ACE III and The Incompleteness Book, among others. Sarah works as the Marketing and Memberships Officer for Writers Victoria and is on the Executive Committee of Management of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP).