Novel Writing with Helen Hagemann at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Helen Hagemann’s prose class on Friday 21^st February @ 10.00am is in Room 2.

On 21^st March & 4^th April we will be in Room 3.

The class will read 2 small chapters from The Bride Stripped Bare by anonymous (really it’s Nikki Gemmel!). Writers will gain insights into how Gemmel sustains a novel written wholly in the 2nd person point-of-view. There will be a quick quiz and a writing exercise on the 2^nd person POV. This will help writers decide their voice for either a short story or novel chapter. All members are welcome to listen to our prose writers for the 1^st hour. Free!

Our Monthly Critiquing

First hour of the class will be a critiquing session. Writers are reminded to bring a 2 page, double spaced “scene/chapter” of a novel, or 2 pages of a short story.

PLEASE NOTE:  Please bring enough printed copies to distribute to your fellow writers. 

Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty St. Fremantle
Room: 2 - Upstairs in the north wing
Day: Friday, 21st February, 2014
Time: 10.00am til noon
Cost: $20 (OOTA members), $25 (non-OOTA members) 

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Creative Writing Program at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Helen Hagemann is teaching a new series of novel writing at the Fremantle Arts Centre each Friday fortnight, commencing 7th February. Beginners and developing writers catered for. The class will focus on writing chapters, (& stand-alone work suitable for the short story), and will read chapters from the best authors/ new authors, not only from Australia, but from all over the globe incl. Kate Grenville, Patrick White, Helen Garner, David Malouf, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, Larry Brown, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Sonya Hartnett, and Donna Tartt to name just a few. 
7th February class will read from Oscar & Lucinda a prize winning novel by Peter Carey. Apart from the usual 2-3 writing exercises, these workshops will introduce a quiz, i.e. a type of "Writing QI" (winners receiving prizes!) to get the writer thinking and learning about important aspects of the presented text. 

Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty St. Fremantle
Room: 2 - Upstairs in the north wing
Starts: Friday (fortnightly) on 7th February, 2014
Time: 10.00am til noon
Cost: $20 (OOTA members), $25 (non-OOTA members)

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