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2002 Workshops at the Bayshore
Thursday 01 August
9.30am – 12pm
W1
POETRY: THE ADVENTURE with Dorothy Porter
$40/ $25 members (max 25)
Participants to come with notebook, pen and an open mind.
Experienced and inexperienced poets welcome; but a passion for poetry
is essential.
Thursday 01 August
12.30am – 3pm
W2 PAINTING
WITH WORDS: THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND WRITING with Arnold Zable
$30/ $18 members (max 25)
A workshop on the art of storytelling with award winning author, Arnold
Zable, explores techniques of writing, both fiction and creative non-fiction.
It will incorporate biography, memoir, short story and the novel. Zable
will draw upon his novel Cafe Scheherazade, and memoirs Jewels and Ashes,
and The Fig Tree.
Thursday 01 August
3.30pm – 5.30pm
W3 LET’S START WRITING PART 1 with Alison Pearl
$15/ $11 members (max 25)
An intensive, exhilarating, word-filled workshop that gets you writing.
By using simple techniques that eliminate blocks and inhibitions, your
creative ignition is turned on. The results are a deluge of writing.
This class suits those who have yet to write the first few lines, or
let anyone else read what they have written.
Friday
02 August
9am – 11am
W4 LET’S START WRITING PART 2 with Alison Pearl
$15/ $11 members (max 25)
This class hones, refines, restimulates and creates new pathways for
your ideas or works in progress. It suits those who have completed the
first course, or those already involved in regular writing of any kind.
Friday
02 August
11.30am – 1.30am
W5 HOW TO GET PUBLISHED: THE WRITER’S GUIDE with Irina Dunn
$15/ $11 members (max 40)
In this three-hour practical seminar, Irina Dunn, NSW Writers' Centre
Director, will help you get your writing career off the ground by providing
information on
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publishing outlets for fiction and non-fiction works
- how to market your work
- what to do with your full-length manuscript
- copyright
- literary agents
- how to approach publishers and magazine editors
- literary competitions
- self-publishing
- how to get your work produced or performed
- tax records for writers. and any other question you have about writing and publishing.
Friday
02 August
2pm – 5pm
W6 TRUTH IS RICHER THAN FICTION: THE USE OF RESEARCH IN WRITING FOR
THE THEATRE with Hannie Rayson
$40 / $25 members (Max 15)
Why research? When you’ve collected all the interesting stuff,
how do you bury your erudition? How does research help you get inside
someone else’s head? How do you know what ruthless reactionary
bastards actually think? (Unless you are one!) Join award-winning playwright
Hannie Rayson in this exciting 3-hr workshop.
Saturday
03 August
9pm – 12pm
W7 ON THE ROAD: TRAVEL WRITING with Mark Mordue
$30 / $18 members (max 25)
Over the past decade or more the travel writing genre has exploded to
embrace everything from New Journalism to memoir and diary forms that
are like a short story or even a novel; from highly idiosyncratic humour
and character pieces to personal, poetic reminiscences that are as much
about the writers as the places they visit. This workshop will emphasise
the literary possibilities of travel writing as well as its important
journalistic foundations. It will introduce you to basic techniques
and approaches in both documenting and selling your stories to magazines
and newspapers while encouraging the development of a unique voice in
your writing with reference to leading figures in travel literature.
Saturday 03 August
12.30pm – 2.30pm
W8 MAKING UP STORIES FOR CHILDREN with Nette Hilton
$30 / $18 members (max 25)
Stories come from as many sources as there are writers and daily happenings.
Using a variety of techniques it is possible to turn a simple sentence
into the story. In this workshop there will be time to:
* Review books that are helpful in seeking solutions
* Look at the impact of words; the formal construction of narrative;
stream of consciousness writing and its place in the development of
ideas; ‘what if’; the process of story writing and editing.
* Spend time developing story lines using charting procedures
Ý Provide some answers to questions about getting published in children’s
literature.
Saturday 03 August
3pm – 5pm
W9 DOCUMENTARY FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN with Sally Browning
$30 / $18 members (max 15)
The process of script development for documentary differs to that of
feature film. Documentary makers often find themselves going through
the process without additional creative support and with less funding.
And yet there is as much drama in making a documentary as there is in
making a feature. It is also interesting to note that each year as many
documentaries as feature films go into production in Australia, due
to the Accord system. Using case studies and experience built up over
a decade, award-winning documentary filmmaker and Manager of Development
& Finance for FTO, Sally Browning, will explain the process of ideas
to treatment to finance to production
Tickets will be available in June 2002. For all inquiries or to be included
on the mailing list for the program please call The Northern Rivers
Writers' Centre on 02 6685 5115 or e-mail info@nrwc.org.au
with your full name and postal details.
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