Prose Class with Helen Hagemann @ Fremantle Arts Centre

Friday, 22^nd March is the prose class with Helen Hagemann. Writers will look at two short stories  The Story of the Bus Driver who Wanted to be God and Breaking the Pig by Israeli writer Etgar Keret from his short story collection, The Bus Driver who Wanted to be God.  Writing exercises and discussion on "Writing a Creative History" in your work. The class will look at ways of writing the social, cultural, political, or fundamental flaws in our society in a light-hearted and humorous way. 
Venue: Room 2, Upstairs North Wing, Fremantle Arts Centre Friday 22nd March at 10.00am
Cost: $20 OOTA, $25 Non-OOTA
All welcome! 

Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Keret has received the Prime Minister's award for literature, as well as the Ministry of Culture's Cinema Prize. The short film Malka Lev Adom (Skin Deep, 1996), which Keret wrote and directed with Ran Tal, won an Israel Film Academy award and first place in the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. The film Jellyfish, a joint venture for Keret and his wife received the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, Keret received the Chevalier (Knight) Medallion of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today. Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father's first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. The Bus Driver includes stories from Keret's bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret's major new novella, "Kneller's Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.

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Creastive Writing at the Fremantle Arts Centre with Helen Hagemann

Friday, 8^th March is the prose class with Helen Hagemann.  Continuing with our Worldwide short fiction, writers will read the short story Panic from The Rendezvous & Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier. Writing exercises and discussion about creating “a twist in the plot”. 10-noon. All welcome!

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. .Her elder sister was the writer Angela du Maurier. Her father was the actor Gerald du Maurier. Her grandfather was the writer George du Maurier. Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She amassed 159 works including novels, short story collections, plays, and biographies. Her best known novels are Rebecca and The Birds, both adapted to film by Alfred Hitchcock. Literary critics have sometimes berated du Maurier's works for not being "intellectually heavyweight" like those of George Eliot or Iris Murdoch. By the 1950s, when the socially and politically critical "angry young men" were in vogue, her writing was felt by some to belong to a bygone age. Today, she has been reappraised as a first-rate storyteller, a mistress of suspense. Her ability to recreate a sense of place is much admired, and her work remains popular worldwide. For several decades she was the most popular author for library book borrowings.

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Monday Poetry at the Grove with Helen Hagemann, 25th February

Monday Poetry with Helen Hagemann commences at the Grove on Monday 25th February. This workshop “Making Myths” will help poets move away from well-worn paths to find “the hidden, the alien, the myth”. Poets cited: Li Po, Joy Harjo, Oodgeroo, John Tranter, Luke Davies, Kate Llewellyn, Tom Shapcott, Alison Clark.  1.00pm start. All welcome!

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Prose Class at the FAC with Helen Hagemann

Our Prose class on Friday, 22^nd February continues with Worldwide Short Fiction, looking at US writer Raymond Carver. The class will read his short story “They’re not your husband” from Will You Please be Quiet, Please. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around “minimalism and the metaphorical frame” in Carver’s work.

Further into the year, we will be looking at Carver's other short stories from What we talk about when we talk about love and Short Cuts.

Workshop Venue:  Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty St, Freo. Room 2 Upstairs North Wing.
Date/time:  Friday, 22nd February @ 10.00am til noon
Cost:    $20 OOTA members  $25 Non-OOTA memabers

All welcome!
You can join OOTA here

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First Prose Class at the FAC on Friday, 8th February

First Prose class for the year commences on Friday, 8^th February with Helen Hagemann.  This series, looking at “Worldwide Short Fiction”, will gradually introduce traditions that will enhance wider references in your work.  As a springboard for the year, the class will read fables, including the story of Blue Beard. Writing exercises, discussion and revision of the short story, citing The Short Story, Eds. Stone, Packer & Hoopes.

Venue:  Room 2, Upstair, Fremantle Arts Centre
            1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.

Time:  10.00am til noon
Cost:  $20 OOTA, $25 Non-OOTA

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