Spec Fic: Writing the Future with Helen Hagemann

Spec Fic: Writing the Future with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 25th November, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop is designed to help writers think about ways in which we might look further ahead into the future and be slightly prophetic in our speculative fiction / sci-fi. We will read an extract from The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver set in the years 2029-...

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Split Narratives: Dividing the Narration of a Story with Helen Hagemann

Divided narrative in Gone Girl Workshop: Split Narratives in Fiction with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 11th November, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will look at the choice writers can make by dividing their stories between two (or more) characters. The class is suitable for the novelist and also the short story writer. Writing exercises will revolve...

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Workshop: Writing Narrative Puzzles with Helen Hagemann

Workshop: Writing Narrative Puzzles with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 28th October, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will look at the process of writing narrative puzzles that are used mainly in games, however from the writer's point of view the practice is essentially the same as plotting your fiction. Writing exercises will prompt writers to solve...

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An OOTA Prose Workshop with Marlish Glorie

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Writing at the Centre News: No Prose class for 30th September

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The Short Story Revision Workshop 5: with Helen Hagemann - Freytag's Pyramid

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} The Short Story Revision Workshop 5 with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 16th September, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will review Freytag's Pyramid as a model for the short story and it's plot.  This is...

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The Short Story Revision Workshop 4 with Helen Hagemann

The Short Story Revision Workshop 4 with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 2nd September, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will look at writing the short story without a plot. We will read an extract of Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin: a short story that is not plot-driven, yet relies on the reader's ability to take in the narrative constructed in this way. ...

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The Short Story Revision Workshop 3 with Helen Hagemann

The Short Story Revision Workshop 3 with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 19th August, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will look at the process of short story writing from creating the best hook for the beginning, your plot middle and the final resolution. We will brainstorm your work to help you enter either one, two or three stories in lieu of the upcoming...

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The Short Story Revision Workshop 2 with Helen Hagemann

The Short Story Revision Workshop 2 with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 5th August, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will revise the varying elements of the short story concentrating this week on characters, as well as working towards a completion of 2-3 stories in lieu of the upcoming competition. ie. Flash/Micro/Short Short Fiction to the Long Short...

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The Short Story Revision Workshop 1 with Helen Hagemann

The Short Story Revision Workshop 1 with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 22nd July, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will revise the varying short stories from Flash/Micro/Short Short Fiction to the Long Short Story. This will be ongoing for OOTA writers who are contemplating entering The Spilt Ink Competition 2016 that closes on 31st August. We will look...

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Workshop: Horror/Thriller Writing with Helen Hagemann

Horror/Thriller Writing with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 8th July, 1pm-3pm.  This workshop will highlight the main elements of early horror writing in particular Robert Bloch's psychological thriller "Psycho". This will be a Part 1 in this series as the genre is quite diverse. Writers to read the most exciting and thrilling excerpts from this...

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