EVENTS - Coming Soon
Dipping Your Toe - Writing Workshops
Are you interested to write a novel, memoire, short stories, or support a child or grandchild with their creativity, perhaps just increase your enjoyment of reading?If so, you may like to attend one or all the two-hour writing sessions being run by five different WA authors.
Bring a notebook, pen or two and your keep cup.
Open Book - 124 Wellington Street, Mosman Park 6012.
$30 per two hour session, book for 1, 2, all.
Saturdays 7, 14, 21, 28 September & 5th October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
-
Introduction to the basics of getting started. Writing exercises, word choices, the anatomy of a paragraph, avoiding self-criticism, the importance of positivity
Annie de Monchaux, - Audrey’s Gone AWOL–Ultimo Press
-
Building Characters.Breaking them down and rounding them back out. A show-don’t-tell and leap-then-look approach to bringing cliché-free characters to life.
Louise Wolhuter – An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb, Shadows of Winter Robins –Ultimo press
-
Writing prompts and exercises to re-energise memories, free thoughts, in the process of writing memoire and fiction.
Gerard McCann – Anatomy of a Secret –Fremantle Press
-
‘The sentence is a self-contained world of wonder.’ Tips to make your sentences soar, sing and set your readers’ hearts aflame.
Michelle Johnston – Dustfall,Tiny Uncertain Miracles – Harper Collins,
-
IThe Power of the 5 Senses. Whatever you’re writing – fiction, memoir, poetry – using sensory detail will bring your words to life. This workshop will show you how to utilise all five senses in your writing in order to spark your readers’ imaginations. Just bring your eyes, ears, nose, taste-buds and fingertips – along with a pen and paper!
Louise Allan - Sisters Song– Allen & Unwin
https://www.trybooking.com/CTZNZtem description
Audrey’s Gone AWOL
was launched in April 2024.
Click here for details
Annie’s Bio
Annie was living in France until the C word hit and now, she’s a writer based in West Australia. Her non-fiction Cray Tales was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Literary Award and became the basis of a documentary. She’s had short stories published in anthologies and written feature articles for a variety of newspapers….. more
Cray Tales
Cray Tales, published in 1998, is a book offering a colourful account of the Western Australian Cray Fishing Industry.
Cray Tales gives a largely unrecorded West Australian sub-culture the opportunity to be seen and heard. The fishermen and their families’ tales are bawdy, tragic, tender and whether the reader likes history, surfing, drama or a good belly laugh there is something for everyone. It’s about exclusive lobster fishers whose livelihoods are bound into the ecology of the sea and who take the dangerous, isolated and bizarre for granted. They’re driven by a hunting instinct, technology shunts, money sculpts but nature prevails and the resulting human condition is unique, pioneering, skilled and naive. Read More
My faithful writing companion, Raja
@instagram.com/annie_dem_writer/
Made with Squarespace by Tim Grant
Annie’s Social Links