The Memoir Club: August Memoir Writing Masterclass with Barbara Brooks & Alison Lyssa
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 6.00 - 9.00 PM
The Randwick Literary Institute,
60 Clovelly Road, Randwick 2031
RSVP: MemoirClubSydney@gmail.com
Our next Memoir Club meeting is an opportunity to fire your writerly imagination and garner crafty writing advice from two popular, highly regarded and extremely experienced writers and teachers of creative writing.
The Masterclass will focus on strategies, ideas and techniques to aid your writing project. Part of the evening will be a conversation between Barbara and Alison on the scope memoir offers for you to explore your story and your role as the ‘eye’ of that story – the ‘eye’ that is at once participant, narrator and interpreter of the thought, feeling and experience that your story illuminates.
Given memoir’s brilliant power of bricolage and its freedom to borrow from fiction, poetry and drama, we’ll be discussing such techniques as: the vivid depiction of place and people; the creation of scenes; and the writing of dialogue. And, there’s memoir’s power to use language: its clarity, its rhythms and its delight in metaphor. Important too – well, actually, crucial – is your participation. Your questions and input will be welcomed.
For part of the evening we will divide into two groups for writing exercises and discussion. For the writing exercises please bring:
Writing materials and your sense of adventure; and,
An object or photograph that connects you with a theme, person or place vital to your writing project.
60 Clovelly Road, Randwick 2031
RSVP: MemoirClubSydney@gmail.com
Our next Memoir Club meeting is an opportunity to fire your writerly imagination and garner crafty writing advice from two popular, highly regarded and extremely experienced writers and teachers of creative writing.
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| Photo from Bang2write.com |
Given memoir’s brilliant power of bricolage and its freedom to borrow from fiction, poetry and drama, we’ll be discussing such techniques as: the vivid depiction of place and people; the creation of scenes; and the writing of dialogue. And, there’s memoir’s power to use language: its clarity, its rhythms and its delight in metaphor. Important too – well, actually, crucial – is your participation. Your questions and input will be welcomed.
For part of the evening we will divide into two groups for writing exercises and discussion. For the writing exercises please bring:
Writing materials and your sense of adventure; and,
An object or photograph that connects you with a theme, person or place vital to your writing project.
