March 01, 2015
We will
be looking at two short stories published in your membership copy of Westerly
#59.2 (Rosie Barter’s &
Rashida Murphy’s). It would be great if
you could bring your copy to class.
Class will include reading of extracts from Not Sweet, No Sweet at all by Rosie Barter & from The Moon Still Speaks by Rashida Murphy. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around folk tales, legends and folklore.
Room 3, 1.00pm-3.00pm, Fremantle Arts Centre: OOTA $20.00: Non-OOTA $25
Rosie Barter
Before turning her hand to writing, Rosie Barter was a senior lecturer in graphic design at Curtin University for 24 years. She has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies.
Her story Not Sweet, Not Sweet at all won 2nd prize in the Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart Short story competition 2014.
from the judge's report...
This amazing piece of writing is not steeped in traditional literature at all. In fact it’s avant-garde in the extreme. But it is no less worthy of recognition for all that. It’s beautifully written in a Gothic and disturbing way that both moved and chilled me. The story’s gradual revelation of a really peculiar (and disturbing) madness is delicious and, while my prerequisite ending appears missing, I think I can just see its ghost over there... Piglets as pincushions.”
Class will include reading of extracts from Not Sweet, No Sweet at all by Rosie Barter & from The Moon Still Speaks by Rashida Murphy. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around folk tales, legends and folklore.
Room 3, 1.00pm-3.00pm, Fremantle Arts Centre: OOTA $20.00: Non-OOTA $25
Before turning her hand to writing, Rosie Barter was a senior lecturer in graphic design at Curtin University for 24 years. She has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies.
Her story Not Sweet, Not Sweet at all won 2nd prize in the Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart Short story competition 2014.
from the judge's report...
This amazing piece of writing is not steeped in traditional literature at all. In fact it’s avant-garde in the extreme. But it is no less worthy of recognition for all that. It’s beautifully written in a Gothic and disturbing way that both moved and chilled me. The story’s gradual revelation of a really peculiar (and disturbing) madness is delicious and, while my prerequisite ending appears missing, I think I can just see its ghost over there... Piglets as pincushions.”
Rashida Murphy is a writer of short stories, poems and one novella. Her short stories and poetry has been published in literary magazines and anthologies since 1990. Her work explores the relationships between fathers, mothers and daughters and the impact of physical dislocation on those relationships. Murphy holds two Masters degrees, one in English Literature, the other in Creative Writing. Currently she is undertaking a Phd at Edith Cowan University.
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