Event Description

Hear local author Annie de Monchaux discuss her novel, Audrey’s Gone AWOL, a funny and beautifully observed story about losing yourself, finding yourself, and discovering joy. Annie de Monchaux has a two-book deal with Ultimo Press, you’ll find out about her writing and publishing journey.

Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s feeling invisible to everyone, even herself, so she flees to her aunt’s home in rural France. She finds solace in the charms of the countryside, the company of her aged aunt and a cast of eccentric Bretons. Soon Audrey discovers going AWOL might do more than save her marriage, it might just change her life.

Annie's previous lives include ex-nurse, ex-mural artist, ex-script writer in Hollywood & London. Author of Cray Tales a non-fiction anthology of lobster fishing stories, which was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Award.

When : 6:00PM - 7:30PM Thursday 21 November 2024

Contact : 0894113800

More Details

Writing Workshop

$30 per two hour session, book for 1, 2, all.
Book via www.trybooking.com see links below.

124 Wellington Street, Mosman Park 6012.

Open Book

Saturdays 7, 14, 21, 28 September & 5th October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00

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.

September 7th

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

BOOK HERE

September 14th

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

BOOK HERE

September 21st

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

BOOK HERE

‘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.

September 28th

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The 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