WORKSHOP: Read, Reflect, Rewrite with Roanna Gonsalves

Getting good feedback can transform a manuscript, and giving feedback sharpens your own writing just as much. In this workshop series with award-winning author and creative writing teacher and mentor Dr Roanna Gonsalves, you'll read each other's work and give and receive generous, honest feedback that moves it forward.

If you’re a writer who is looking for community, and if you’re ready to take your work to the next level, then this group is for you. 

Suitable for writers of all stages, including those just starting out. If you have 2,000 to 5,000 words of prose fiction or non-fiction writing, you are ready to join. 

This workshop is an 18+ event.

ABOUT ROANNA GONSALVES

Dr Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning author and academic. Her novel The Servants is forthcoming in 2027. Her critically acclaimed book of short fiction The Permanent Resident was published in India as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney. She is a recipient of the UNSW Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award among other prizes. Roanna’s series of radio documentaries On the tip of a billion tongues and her radio essay Doosra: The life and times of an Indian student in Australia were commissioned and broadcast by ABC Radio National. She has been teaching, supervising and mentoring emerging prose writers and screenwriters within communities, schools, literary organizations and institutions such as New York University Sydney, UNSW, Western Sydney University, Macquarie University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She serves as the editor of Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, and works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW Sydney.

Dates: Wednesdays from 19 August to 23 September (19 Aug, 26 Aug, 2 Sep, 9 Sep, 16 Sep, 23 Sep)
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm

• This is a seated event.

• Parking onsite is limited to individuals with access needs. Please email varuna@varuna.com.au to request a suitable parking spot.

• Drivers can drop off their passengers onsite and then move to the recommended parking area.

• Recommended parking is kerbside on Cascade St (not Sherman Avenue) and walking to Varuna's main entry.

• Varuna's driveway, car park and gardens are uneven and care is recommended when accessing the property at all times.

• If you require T-loop, closed captions, Auslan interpreters or accessible parking, please contact Varuna directly on varuna@varuna.com.au or call 02 4782 5674 to speak to Erin English.