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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