Christopher Konrad to teach Prose at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Christopher Konrad will be teaching Prose Classes from now on each Friday fortnight at the Fremantle Arts Centre. He began in Term 2 taking over from Helen Hagemann who retires to be a full-time writer. You may remember his good news recently when he won the 2018 Tom Collins Poetry Award m a competition run by the Fellowship of WA Writers at Swanbourne WA. He is pictured here with Dennis Haskell (Judge) and FAW President Pat Johnson. Christopher has studied extensively, has a Ph.D in Writing from Edith Cowan University and is an erudite writer. Come along and share your writing passions with others, and develop a sensitive and curious writing craft.
Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, the Print Room, however inquire at desk. 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
Christopher is a Western Australian writer with several books of poetry published. He has poems and short stories published in many journals and online including Westerly, Regime, Page Seventeen, Wet Ink, Creatrix, Swamp, Axon, Island, Cordite. Tamba, Southerly.  Along with other awards he received First Prize for the Tom Collins Poetry Award (2009 & 2018) and the Todhunter Literary Award (2012) for a short story. He is published in Best Australian Poems 2013. His latest book Argot was published by Pomonal Publishing (2016). He is currently working on a collection of short stories, essays, poems and ....
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Looking forward to working with you in the coming term 

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Writing Who You Are with Chris Konrad

Christopher Konrad Ph.d (Wrtg) ECowan

Writing who you are
Do you suffer from Hypergraphia? The compulsion to write? Then this is the course for you! ‘Real’ writers cross culturally, across time and gender all assert that they simply do not have a choice but to write. We write not because we want to, but because we need to!
Writing is not a choice – it’s a compulsion!

A series of three sessions will help you explore the compelled writer within and hopefully, through that process, free up the work and allow it to flow more magically.This series commences on Friday 31st May, 14th June & 28th June at 1pm.  
Cost
1. OOTA members $35 per session or $100 for all three 
2. Non-OOTA   $45 per session or $120 for all three

Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, upstairs in the Print Room. Time: 1-3pm. What to bring: Notepad, pen, laptop or iPad. Pay in person when you arrive. Cash or cheque only, no credit card facility. For further information on this series write to ootawriters@gmail.com or for information on how to join OOTA, please visit our website 

Christopher Konrad is a Western Australian writer and has had poems and short stories published in many journals and online. He has received numerous awards including winning the Glen Phillips Poetry Prize 2015 and Tom Collins Poetry Award in 2009 and 2018. His latest book of poetry, Argot, was published by Pomonal Publishing (2016). He is currently working on other poetry, particularly prose poetry, and a collection of essays. Chris also won the Todhunter Literary Award (2012) for a short story. He is published in Best Australian Poems 2013.  

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Steven Finch to teach Prose Classes at the FAC

Steven Finch will be teaching Prose Classes in Term 1 starting 8th February 1-3pm Fremantle Arts Centre. You may remember him at the Arts Centre (pictured here with friends) living in a yurt for 6 months, as the hard-working Editor of dotdotdash and involved in a myriad of community projects including his role as Administration Officer at the Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany. Steven is not only community-minded about the arts, but is also a published writer. He has a short story The Kid on the Karaoke Stage Emptied His Beer and Cried. Men Threw Him a Line, from which the collection gets its title in a short story collection published by Fremantle Press. Prose classes are Friday fortnightly, commencing 8th February in the Print Room. Further inquiries please contact OOTA @ ootawriters@gmail.com

Read Helen Hagemann's review of Steven's story on Goodreads

Steven's Bio
Steven (SJ) Finch is a writer and community artist. He was the former editor of dotdotdash, a WA creative literature and art journal. He has been published in Westerly, Voiceworks, Cottonmouth, Australian Poetry and by Fremantle Press. In 2015 Finch was the recipient of a CAL Writer in Residence Award from the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA; co-curated Anthologia with Alina Tang, an exhibition of floriographic poetry at Paper Mountain; and launched an ongoing nomadic residency where he lived in a self-made off-grid traveling yurt called grr for 15 months. In 2016 as part of The Blue Room Theatre's Summer Nights program, Finch hosted a mini-festival of storytelling and performance in the Grr called Grr Nights. He co-curated with Claire Bushby, Words Beyond Grammar, a group. He was a selected artist for the Perth International Arts Festival’s Artist Lab 2017, a Creative Producer intern for the Digital Writers Festival 2017, and a featured writer at the National Young Writers’ Festival 2017. He was formerly the Project Officer for National Youth Week, organising the KickstART Festival 2017 Propel Youth Arts WA and the inaugural Literary Youth Festival. He is the current Project Coordinator for Lotterywest Story Street, an ongoing storytelling project with Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Communities.

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Helen Hagemann returns to Critiquing Friday Mornings

Join Helen Hagemann and other Prose writers for some valuable time critiquing your work.

Critiquing Group @ the Fremantle Arts Centre every Prose Friday morning 10.00am to midday.  Commences Friday 8th February. The group meet in the FAC Cafe (small room) which is subject to availability. Writers are asked to send up to 4 pages of their work (Times New Roman, 12, 1.5 spacing) prior to the Friday, so that you can read other writers’ work and comment beforehand. This can be either a short story, flash fiction, prose poetry, part of your novel, your memoir, or part of a non-fiction work that you are having difficulty with. We will critique for two hours, have lunch before class at 1.00pm. Inquiries with Helen - hagemann(dot)helen (at)gmail(dot)com

PLEASE NOTE:  You must be a member of OOTA to join this group!

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