Read as a Writer, Write as a Reader with Ana Duffy

Learn to switch between a reader’s and writer’s lens, and to read your own writing as a first-time reader would.

Great writers are great readers. This workshop helps you step in and out of both roles: reader and writer, understanding that what's on the page is all the writer has to make the story work. It's all about clarity, intention, delivering less and withdrawing more, implying without giving away (not too little, not too much) and that sweet spot where what you write feels right—not only to you, but also to your reader.

Learning Outcomes

As part of this workshop, you will:

• Understand how good writing works from the inside out.

• Learn to switch between a reader’s and writer’s lens, and to read your work as a first-time reader.

• Re-work your (many) drafts tapping on your “reader-awareness” (editing is the second, unglamorous yet vital half of writing).

• Learn to recognise intentional gaps and silences in reading, to then practice them, deliberately, in writing (what’s on the page and what’s in your head?).

Format

This is a hybrid workshop with a focus on writing craft; it will be held in-person at Queensland Writers Centre and live streamed to an online audience via Zoom. This workshop is suitable for writers of all levels and backgrounds.

About Ana

Ana is an Argentinean-born-Australian writer and academic. She writes mostly short memoir, and has short-stories published in Island, Mascara, Coffin Bell, Swamp and others. Ana holds a PhD in the field of Latin American literature from UQ and has been teaching Creative Writing and Literary units at QUT for the last seven years.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info