Prose @ Hubbles Yard Cafe

Prose @ Hubbles Yard Cafe with Helen Hagemann Friday, 6th October, 1pm-3pm. This is a critiquing workshop and the idea is to help writers who may have some flash fiction, a short story or novel/chapter opening that they would like others to comment on. All writers at different levels can participate and give brickbats and bouquets. (ie.constructive criticism). You can email Helen prior to class for distribution @ hagemann(dot)hele(at)gmail(dot)com or bring along on the day. 

Please note: Max 4 pages 1.5/2.0 spacing in Times New Roman font. Payment is optional as this is a school holiday class, but any amount is gratefully accepted for Helen's time.
Venue:   Hubbles Yard Cafe, 50 George Street, East Fremantle.
Meet for lunch at 12-12.30pm or order smaller meals /coffee at 1pm in the separate room that is provided.

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Looking @ Tom Cox with Helen Hagemann

Looking @ Tom Cox with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 22nd September, 1pm-3pm.  Whether published or not this workshop is about promoting yourself as a writer on all social media platforms. Published British author and social-media guru Tom Cox will be our focus as a template. 
Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, Upstairs in the Print Studio.

Time: 1-3pm. What to bring:  Notepad, pen, laptop or iPad

Cost:  OOTA $25  - NON-OOTA $30 (ask for membership form to save).  
Please note: For information on joining OOTA and what we do, please visit our website http://ootawriters.com

Tom Cox is one writer who uses all social media platforms to focus his writing, ie his books, his philosophy on life, family and nature. Mostly all of these areas are covered with his own personalised photographic record. His concerted efforts to self promote have gained him as many as 23.6K followers on Instagram, 69.3K on Twitter and 805,000 followers on Facebook (approx). Writing is not only about getting published or winning competitions but it is also about living as a writer and creating your own community, ie network. We can all do this now with the help of such mediums as Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, Wordpress and Instagram. All these platforms link to one another and are beneficial in the promotion of your writing, and your life as a writer. Class to read various blog-posts by Tom Cox that highlight, how as a prolific writer, he attracts attention through humour, the environment in which he lives, his basic home philosophy, and also his love of his pet cats.  Writing exercises will cover the same areas as this author.


Cox is a Nottinghamshire-born British author, now based in Devon. He has published nine books, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Good, The Bad & The Furry and Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia, his account of his year as Britain’s most inept golf professional, which was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year award. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the chief Rock Critic for The Guardian newspaper and went on to write columns and features for many other newspapers and magazines, before quitting print journalism altogether in 2015 to write pieces exclusively for his voluntary subscription website. He also hosts a monthly show on the experimental radio station Soundart. His new book, 21st Century Yokel - “a nature book, but not quite like any you will have read before” which crowdfunded in a record-breaking seven hours[4] - will be published by Unbound in October. 2017

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Reflexive Writing: A workshop with Helen Hagemann

Workshop: Reflexive Writing
Friday 8th September, 2017.
Please note: Class will be held in the Print Studio.
Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, Time: 1-3pm. What to bring: Notepad, pen, laptop or iPad Cost: OOTA $25 - NON-OOTA $30 (ask for membership form to save). For information on joining OOTA and what we do, please visit our website ootawriters.com

In reflexive (self‐reflective) writing, you couple personal experience with careful observation and/or critical thinking about an aspect of your experience. For example, you might write about how you developed as a thinker, writer, or researcher; or how a particular process or event unfolded for you. The key is that this writing engages you. As well as sharing insights with readers, reflexive writing is increasingly becoming “an important component of intellectual work”. In many cases, self‐reflection is a means of argumentation in which you use your experience to make a point about the importance of a particular event, process, or form of knowledge. (Reference: SFU.CA)

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