NYWF 2023: Trauma-Informed Writing

Name: NYWF 2023: Trauma-Informed Writing
Start: 2023-09-30T16:30:00+1000
End: 2023-09-30T17:30:00+1000
Location: Newcastle Library (Quiet Room)

Sat, 30 Sep 2023, 4:30pm - 5:30pm AEST

Newcastle Library (Quiet Room)

newcastle, australia

National Young Writers' Festival

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Trauma is a ‘hot’ topic in literature but many people struggle to write about trauma. Some people feel unsafe when they write about trauma, others worry they have misunderstood or misused certain terms. This workshop with award-winning writer Eda Gunaydin and writer and trauma researcher Tina Huang will cover the following topics:

What is trauma?
What is trauma informed writing?
Ethical storytelling
Counter-storytelling

This event is a part of National Young Writers' Festival, presented in partnership with NewSouth Books.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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National Young Writers' Festival (NYWF) is Australia’s largest gathering of young writers, with artists bringing their craft from all around (cities, regional, rural and our beloved regular cohort from Aotearoa). We showcase work in both new and traditional forms including zines, comics, blogging, screenwriting, poetry, spoken word, hip hop, music, journalism, autobiography, comedy and prose. Our programs are free, and made by and for young writers who create across stage, page, web and beyond

Since its creation in 1998, NYWF has presented ‘writing’ in its broadest sense through panels, discussions, workshops, launches, performances, readings, installations, and more. Our program combines practical skill-building sessions with social events, interactive projects, writing showcases and collaborations.

National Young Writers’ Festival takes place on the land of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples in Newcastle, NSW. We acknowledge and pay respect to the Awabakal and Worimi people on whose land our festival was born; and many, many other First Nations Peoples as the traditional custodians of the unceded lands on which the festival occurs this year. We pay respect to elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the resilience of their continuing cultures. This always was, always is, always will be Aboriginal land.