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.