Workshop 6: Setting with Mags Webster

Workshop 6: Setting with Mags Webster, Friday 4th May at the Fremantle Arts Centre, 1.00pm - 3.00pm (Print room)
As part of the ongoing series called "Working  the Short Story" Mags Webster will conduct a class on SETTING. The aim is to continue guiding you as to what makes a good story. These Prose classes look at major elements that will have you powering away into your writing. $25 OOTA $30 NON-OOTA

Mags Webster is a poet, freelance writer and editor, and currently a PhD student at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Her poetry and prose have been published in various publications and anthologies in Australia, Asia and America. Her first collection of poetry The Weather of Tongues (Sunline Press) won Australia's 2011 Anne Elder Award for a debut collection of poetry.

Born and raised in the UK, she moved to Australia in 2003. Also living in Hong Kong from 2011 to 2014, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Hong Kong's City University.

You can read her prose on her website here

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Workshop 5: Theme: the Purpose of a Tale

Workshop 5: Theme: the Purpose of a Tale with Helen Hagemann Friday 6th April @ 1pm. This is the last class in Term 1. You are welcome to bring along your stories that you are working on to discover "theme". Writing exercises, as well as readings of a comprehensive online writing critique that includes: your message, digressions, a milepost character, symbolism and figurative language.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING TIMETABLE
Friday, 20th April - No class due to school holidays
Friday, 4th May - Term 2 commences with Mags Webster. As part of the 10 Part Series called "Working  the Short Story" Mags will bring you Workshop 6: Setting.
Friday, 18th May - with Helen Hagemann - Workshop 7: Point of View.

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