Voice and Vision: Bringing Your Writing to Life with Kathryn Heyman
Workshop Overview
For emerging and established writers of fiction and non-fiction, this two-day online workshop will help you find joy and freedom in your writing. Using unique methods developed over many years, acclaimed writer and mentor Kathryn Heyman will help you develop new techniques, find character voice and the voice for your novel or memoir. You will leave the class with a stronger sense of your writerly voice and vision, a toolkit of techniques to discover new elements in your writing, and the confidence to go forward.
You will learn:
how to discover, deepen, and develop your writing voice
the right questions to ask of a creative project
how to break writerly habits (and find new ones) and discover a new voice
how to develop character voice
techniques to marry form and content, so that the voice you write in is the truest one for your subject
Please note:
Due to health and safety concerns over COVID-19, the ACT Writers Centre has adapted this event to a digital format. This is a pilot initiative, so your patience is appreciated. The Zoom meeting code will be sent out 48hr before the first session via Eventbrite. This meeting code will be for both sessions.
We know connection and image & sound quality can often be a problem with digital events. To ensure all participants get the full benefit of the workshop, all sessions will be recorded and available to participants if loss of connection occurs.
About the format
This workshop will be held in two parts: 10-12.30pm on Saturday 16th, then 4-5pm on Sunday 17th.
These sessions will be conducted over Zoom, an online video conferencing platform. It can be downloaded for free here: https://zoom.us/. We strongly recommend familiarizing yourself with the platform prior to the workshop.
About the Expert
Dr Kathryn Heyman 's sixth novel, Storm and Grace, was published to critical acclaim in 2017. She has written several radio dramas for the BBC, including adaptations of her own fiction and was awarded the 2017 CAL Author Fellowship. Her previous work has won the Wingate, Southern Arts and Arts Council of England Writing Awards in the UK and been nominated for awards including the Scottish Writer of the Year, the Orange Prize (now the Baileys) and the Kibble Prize and the West Australian Premier’s Literary Awards. Her seventh book, the memoir Fury, is published in 2020 in Australia and the UK. Kathryn Heyman is the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.
www.kathrynheyman.com I www.writermentors.com
"Heyman's cool-eyed compassion for her characters draws out their humanity while staring hard at their flaws. The marvel is that the frailty she discovers in her women and men turns out to be the foundation of their greatest strengths. It is a paradox notated in language of poetic force and loveliness. A moving, graceful and fiercely interrogated work."
Geordie Williamson, Chief Literary Critic for The Australian