We are story-telling creatures. Our minds find patterns and make them coherent. Using the theme of ‘glass’ as an impetus, this series of three one-hour workshops is designed to help you create a completed story that prompts a reader to be an active participant in the storytelling process.
At the end of the three hours, you will have a toolkit of exercises that keep you on track to writing prose that is sensual and focused on embedding a reader in the storytelling collaboration in a very physical way. You will also have the bones of a completed work of fiction or creative non-fiction and the tools to repeat the process using other organising themes.
You will be working with Krissy Kneen, award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction and author of Stella Prize shortlisted An Uncertain Grace and Thomas Shapcott winning Eating my Grandmother. Krissy was the 2020 Copyright Agency Non-fiction fellow. Their tenth book will be published by Text Publishing in 2023.
Praise for Krissy Kneen’s work:
Writing that “seems to drift like smoke away from the printed page to rewrite the physical world” (Melbourne Review of Books); “a writer taking transformative bounds in the story she tells” (Ashley Hay Best Books of the Year); “What Kneen manages to do, as does Atwood or even Murakami, is make her narrative worlds, wherever they lead, seamless and seductive” (Saturday Paper).
3 - 4 HRS; SELF-PACED; $150 AUD
