Prose Class with Helen Hagemann, Friday 14th November

Friday, 14th November is Prose with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre:  Helen’s start will be directly after lunch in Room 3 1.00pm-3.00pm This workshop is called “Secrets & Dramatic Irony”.  Writing exercises and our readings will include part of Anton Chekhov’s story The Lady with the Dog (dramatic irony). This is the last teaching class...

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Prose Class with Helen Hagemann at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Friday, 31st October is Prose with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre:  Helen’s start will be directly after lunch in Room 3 1.00pm-3.00pm Class to read excerpts from The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. Writing Exercises and the workshop will look at “sub-texts” in the novel and short story that create intrigue. OOTA $20.00:  Non-OOTA $25  The...

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Creative Writing in Fremantle with Helen Hagemann

Friday, 17th October is Prose with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre:  Helen’s start will be directly after lunch in Room 3 1.00pm-3.00pm Class to read excerpts from Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska. Writing Exercises and discussion will include “fictionalised biography” and modern-day journal writing. Drusilla Modjeska was born in London in 1946 and...

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Prose Class with Helen Hagemann, Friday 19th September

Friday, 19th September is Prose with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre:  Our start will be in the Café at 12.45pm, then Room 3 to 2.45pm Class to read an excerpt from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Writing Exercises and discussion will look at the “Passage of Time” in the novel, and “shifts in time” in the short story.  TIME PASSES - ...

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Memoir/Autobiography with Helen Hagemann at FAC

 Friday, 5th September is Prose with Helen Hagemann.  10.00am til noon @ the Fremantle Arts Centre Café.  Cost $20 Class to read excerpts from 12 Edmonstone Street by David Malouf. Writing Exercises and discussion will centre on writing “memoir/autobiography” in particular the importance of place; houses also as a suitable subject for the short story...

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Update on Writing at the Centre's Venue

Currently we are conducting classes in the cafe of the Fremantle Arts Centre. This is in order to keep the class fees to a minimum as we realise writers/poets are not always that flushed with funds. Our new venue is also a temporary measure to combat the ever-increasing rent rises imposed by the FAC.  Shane McCauley and Helen Hagemann as tutors could not see their way...

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Novel Writing with Helen Hagemann at the Fremantle Arts Centre

  Prose Class with Helen Hagemann on Friday, 22nd August at 10.00am. Class to read excerpts from Nick Earls’ Zigzag Street.  Writing Exercises and discussion will revolve around creating the light and poignant elements in your novel, narrative or short story.  Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre Cost: $25 OOTA $30 Non-OOTA Nick Earls (born 8 October 1963...

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Creative Writing in Fremantle with Helen Hagemann

Helen Hagemann’s Prose class resumes at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Friday 8th August.  The class will read 2 excerpts, one from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and the other from Amanda Curtin’s novel Elemental. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around the placement of history (whether true or made-up) in fiction. For the short story writer...

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WRITING AT THE CENTRE NEWS

Shane McCauley and Helen Hagemann wish to advise members that due to regular interim increases of rent at the Fremantle Arts Centre, we have no alternative but to increase class fees to $25 OOTA and $30 Non-OOTA.  This new fee commences on Friday, 8th August. We also add that we are reluctant to do this, and do begrudge the fact that we often sit in a cold room in winter and stuffy hot premises in summer. However, the FAC is our home, our...

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This Week We're at the Swanbourne Bookcaffe - Prose with Helen Hagemann (25th July, 2014)

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Helen Hagemann Returns with the 2014 Series: Novel Writing/Chapters at the FAC

HELEN HAGEMANN RETURNS THIS WEEK IN THE PROSE SERIES: NOVEL WRITING / Chapters or Short Stories..  FRIDAY, 11TH JULY AT THE FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE, 10.00AM – MIDDAY. The workshop will look at writing LITANY in PROSE. Class to read examples of litany in Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize winner “Life of Pi.” Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty...

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