Workshop 8: Characters with Helen Hagemann

Workshop 8: Characters at the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 1st June @ 1pm.  As part of the ongoing series - Working the Short Story - this week's workshop is designed to help you aim for the biennial OOTA Spilt Ink Competition. The class will look at characters 1. that readers bond with. 2. avoiding the author surrogate. 3. allowing characters to experience a crisis of faith. Readings of Flannery O'Connor's stories + writing exercises. OOTA $25, NON-OOTA $30 - writers are asked to pay cash only.  Venue: Print room at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and supposedly grotesque characters, often in violent situations. The unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfection or difference of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, criminality, religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama.
Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.

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POSITION VACANT: Relief Teacher for Term 3

A Short Tenure of Teaching
Relief Prose Teacher
The position of relief Prose Teacher is available to teach various genres or styles of prose to writers who attend a Friday fortnight class at the Fremantle Arts Centre. 
The position is open now and applications close on Friday, 5pm, 15th June, 2018.
Term 3 tenure is five alternate Friday classes commencing 27^th July – 21^st September. (See specific dates below).

The successful applicant should have previous experience teaching in an adult environment to writers at all different stages of development. It would also be beneficial if the relief teacher is living in the Fremantle area, either within proximity, close to Fremantle, or its surrounding suburbs.

 

View or download the .pdf Job Criteria from the dropdown box @ POSITION VACANT header.

 

Dates of Short Term Tenure
Friday, 27th July
Friday, 10th August
Friday, 24th August
Friday, 7th September
Friday, 21st September

The relief teacher's remuneration will be discussed at the interview stage. For any further inquiries write to Helen Hagemann @ hagemann.helen@gmail.com

 

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Workshop 7: Point of View with Helen Hagemann

   
Workshop 7: Point of View at the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 18th May @ 1pm.  As part of the ongoing series - Working the Short Story - this week's workshop is designed to help you aim for the biennial OOTA Spilt Ink Competition. The class will look briefly at 1st person, 2nd person and mainly focusing on 3rd person limited, 3rd person POV,  omniscient, viewpoint character and rotating point of view. Readings of Anthony Lawrence's short story "Ash" + writing exercises. OOTA $25, NON-OOTA $30 - No free list and cash only. 

Third-person limited offers several advantages:
 Gives the writer more flexibility than first-person point of view – If the story above were told only from the cake shop owner/staff's 1st person point of view, the author could not offer his/ her perspective on the cuteness of their pet. The audience no longer would be looking upon the mutt as stealing a cupcake but would understand and know more about the dog's sugar habits from a male/female owner (3rd person POV).
 Provides a less biased perspective – Stories told in first-person also carry the weight of the main character’s subjective views and perspectives. Sometimes this can make the protagonist less acceptable or likable to a reader, who is more enlightened than that character. Third-person limited moves the reader to the usually more enlightened perspective of the author.
  Offers a clear sense of who the reader should identify with and invest in –Stories told only from the main character’s perspective sometimes show bias especially someone who doesn't like dogs. The author’s insertions show readers how they should view the character ie dog.

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