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The Writer's Space

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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Seminar Room
Katoomba NSW, Australia
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The Writer’s Space writing group is a six-week program open to writers with a lived experience of disability. Writers at all levels of experience and working in any genre are welcome. Facilitated by Fiona Murphy, each session will focus on a different theme – from idea generation to developing compelling characters. Using writing prompts and exercises, we’ll spend time writing in a fun and supportive environment. We’ll also chat about the writing life, including submitting work for publication and how to stay motivated! In the final week there will also be a special Q&A session with writer El Gibbs.

Meeting Saturdays 2-4pm.

27 Feb, 6 March, 13 March, 20 March, 27 March & 10 April*

*Please note the one week break due to Easter

COST: FREE    PLACES ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED SO BOOK NOW!

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Seminar Room

Level 1, 30 Parke St Katoomba


About Fiona Murphy

Fiona Murphy is a deaf poet and essayist. Her work has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Griffith Review, Big Issue, among other publications. In 2019, she was awarded the Overland Fair Australia Essay Prize and the Monash Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Richell Prize and highly commended by the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter program. Her memoir, The Shape of Sound, is forthcoming from Text in March 2021.

Enquires: rebecca@varuna.com.au  or call (02) 47825674. 


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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Seminar Room
Katoomba NSW, Australia