Join Us in 2016!

CLASS TIMETABLE FRIDAYS AT THE FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE FOR 2016 JANUARY Poetry Fri 15th, 1pm-3pm with Shane McCauley NO PROSE CLASS on Friday, 22/1/2016 Poetry Fri 29th, 1pm-3pm with Shane McCauley FEBRUARY Prose Fri 5th, 1pm-3pm with Helen Hagemann - Start of Prose year Poetry Fri 12th, 1pm-3pm with Shane McCauley Prose Fri 19th, 1pm-3pm with Helen Hagemann Poetry...

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Final Prose Class for the Year with Helen Hagemann, Friday 11th December

Final Prose Class for the Year with Helen Hagemann on Friday, 11th December @ 1pm. We will have some popular writing exercises and in the second hour of the workshop "READINGS OFYOUR WORK" - Please bring along your favourite piece to read for approximately 5 - 8 minutes. This is very good practice, especially in lieu of OOTA's 2016, 20 year anniversary pla...

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Travel Writing Workshop with Helen Hagemann, Friday 27th November

Summer holidays and travel are peeking at us through the porthole windows. It's time to think about walking along a Bali beach or trekking the scenic walks of Vietnam. Perhaps you're spending Christmas with the rellies on the Gold Coast or further north towards the Great Barrier Reef. No matter where you are headed, as a writer, you might want to record your amazing travels....

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Workshop with Helen Hagemann: Writing Crime, Friday 13th November

Prose Workshop: Writing Crime with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday 13th November 1pm-3pm. Class to read an extract from The Ultimate Writing Coach including a section called Why not Turn to Crime by Simon Brett. Exercises will be on writing crime scenes and discussion will revolve around police procedure. Venue:  Room 3, Upstairs, North Wing Cost: ...

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Facts and Digressions in Fiction: Workshop with Helen Hagemann Friday 30th October

Facts & Digressions in Fiction: Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann, Friday 30th October. Class to read three extracts from Honey Brown's Red Queen. A writing exercise on "digression" and discussion will revolve around creating space for facts and digressions, esp. Brown's limited facts. 1.00pm - 3.00pm: Room 3, Upstairs, FAC North Wing OOTA $20 - NON-OOTA $25 I Digress For...

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Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann: Dialogue and Dialogue tags

Dialogue and Dialogue Tags: Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday 16th October 1pm-3pm.  Reading an extract from Tim Winton's Cloudstreet, together with writing exercises and discussions on the "setting out" of dialogue and dialogue tags. We will also look at Winton's unpunctuated dialogue. Venue:  Room 3, Upstairs, North Wing Cost: ...

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New from OOTA: Prose Critiquing Class

NEW - Prose Critiquing Class to be held after Helen Hagemann's class each Friday fortnight. Commences this week, Friday, 2nd October at 3pm and will be convened by Robert Jeffreys. Jeffreys is a NIDA graduate and has been a professional actor, a Drama and English teacher, and has had two plays produced by Lyons Productions at The Blue Room, others...

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Prose Workshop: Writing "HOOKS" Friday 2nd October @ FAC

Prose Workshop: Writing "Hooks" with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday 2nd October 1pm-3pm.  Class to read extracts of Prologues from The Casual Vacancy, The Secret River and Shallow Breath, together with writing exercises and discussions on Novel /Short Story/ Non-Fiction beginnings as "Hooks". A Great Hook usually comes at the beginning of the...

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Workshop: Free Indirect Speech with Helen Hagemann, FAC Friday 18th September

Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann, Friday 18th September. Class to read three extracts of  "Free Indirect Speech" from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Virginia Woolf's short story Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street, and Ian McEwan's Atonement. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around "free indirect speech" and other narrative modes. 1.00pm...

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Workshop 3: Plot & Development with Helen Hagemann, Friday, 4th September

   by KayVee.INC | via Flickr Friday 4th September the workshop is the final in the series “Plot & Development” is called “Writing the Character Outline”. The class will look at how outlining can bring out ‘voice’. The main topics will be 1. Character Arc,  2. Main Traits and 3. Details of your character(s).  1pm-3pm, Upstairs, Room 3 at Fremantle...

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Workshop 2: Plot & Development with Helen Hagemann: Friday 21st August

Second workshop in the Series: Plot & Development with Helen Hagemann Friday, 21st August 2015 1.00-3.00pm, Room 3, Fremantle Arts Centre. Cost:  $20 OOTA   $25 NON-OOTA This workshop "How to write an outline" includes writing a novel or short story outline of one of your favourite authors, and by utilising a template of Helen Hagemann's "3 Act outline"...

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Helen Hagemann introduces a Series of Workshops titled: Plot & Development

Workshop Series:  Plot & Development with Helen Hagemann, Friday 7th August 1-3pm at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Utilising Lawrence Block's "Writing the Novel" and other references, this is the first in a series of workshops to help writers understand the narrative arc of the novel / short story.     Helen aims to take writers through the many steps...

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Workshop: Far from the Madding Crowd: Friday, 24th July with Helen Hagemann

Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann, Friday 24th July. Class to read two chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around "landscapes." 1.00pm - 3.00pm: Room 3, Upstairs, FAC North Wing OOTA $20 - NON-OOTA $25 Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success....

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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins: Prose Workshop 10th July

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins: Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday 10th July 1pm-3pm.  Reading an extract from the novel, together with writing exercises and discussions on train journeys. Venue:  Room 3, Upstairs, North Wing Cost:  $20 OOTA - $25 NON-OOTA The Girl on the Train (2015) is a best-selling novel by British...

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Workshop with Guy Salvidge: Friday 26th June @ the Fremante Arts Centre

Guy Salvidge will conduct our Prose class on Friday,  26th June at 1.00pm @ the Fremantle Arts Centre. Cost: $20 OOTA $25 Non-OOTA Room 3, Upstairs North Wing No booking required. Just come along! ‘Writing Your Novel: How to Stick It Out and Get It Done’ with Guy Salvidge In this session, participants will be asked to consider: - how to fit writing a novel around...

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