How does social media help you as a writer? How do you take an Insta-worthy photo? How do you schedule content? How do you write alt-text? This online seminar helps …
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Writing Fandom with CB Mako
When we love something or someone, we often want to write about them. But how do we do this in a way that works for the reader? In this workshop, …
Julia Baird in conversation on Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
Boffins Books, the State Library of Western Australia and Writing WA are delighted to host Julia Baird in conversation on her new book Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything. Julia …
Lunchtime Bite: Fluid Verse: Lessons from Organic Relation with Lou Garcia-Dolnik
In this short session, we’ll consider how thinking ecosystemically can open up new possibilities for our poetry (or other lyric work), while remaining critical about and accountable to our limitations. …
Writing WA Regional Catch Up
Are you a South West writer or reader? Would you like to meet the Writing WA team? Team members Melinda Tognini and Laurie Steed would love to meet you! Join …
Love, Dad: A Conversation with Laurie Steed at York Festival
Presented in partnership with The York Festival, Laurie Steed will be in conversation with Writing WA CEO Will Yeoman. Laurie Steed’s new memoir Love, Dad, (Fremantle Press) explores what it means to …
Australian Writers’ Guild and Writing WA Networking Event
The WA branch of The Australian Writers’ Guild and Writing WA invite you all to join us for our first joint networking drinks at Roberts on Oxford, Sunday 10 September …
DLGSC Funding for Writers Information Session
The WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries is changing the way writers will apply for creative and commercial development funding. Come along to this free information session at the State Library to find out the changes being made and what they mean to writers seeking financial support for upcoming projects. This is not a drill! The session is likely to book out so confirm your place now and stay up to speed on funding in the literary sector here in Western Australia.
Presenter
Isaak Karagoglou – Project Officer Investment, Culture and the Arts
Travel Writing with Gemma Nisbet
Explore the varied creative possibilities of the travel writing genre in this practical workshop with experienced travel writer and creative writing teacher Gemma Nisbet. Whether you’re interested in writing and publishing travel articles, essays, creative nonfiction or books, or in recording your travels via a journal or blog, you’ll learn how to bring a writerly sensibility to your observations and experiences of destinations both distant and close-to-home, and how to immerse your readers in a vivid and distinctive sense of place using the tools of narrative nonfiction. The workshop will also explore research techniques and important questions relating to ethics.