Recapturing Time: Memoir and Family History with Melinda Tognini

Time is a subject that authors across many centuries have pondered. Charles Dickens famously wrote 'it was the best of times; it was the worst of times.' W.H. Auden yearned to 'stop all the clocks' and Oscar Wilde believed that 'punctuality is the thief of all time'.

Join WA author Melinda Tognini for a hands-on workshop that will explore the concept of time in your current or future work-in-progress. Discover how to capture moments and convey the passing of years, stretch and condense time to create narrative tension, and reveal how a person or place has developed and changed during the course of your story. 

About the Presenter

Melinda Tognini’s feature articles, travel writing, personal essays and flash memoir have been published in magazines and anthologies in Australia and the US. Her first book Many Hearts, One Voice: the story of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia was published by Fremantle Press in 2015. Melinda has been teaching, mentoring and facilitating workshops for the past three decades, with the hope of encouraging creativity and empowering others to find their voice. She is currently a PhD candidate at Curtin University, where she is delving into the form, structure and ethics of life writing.

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