Voice and Vision: Bringing Your Writing and Characters to Life

For writers of fiction and non-fiction, this one-day workshop will help you find joy and freedom in your writing. Using unique methods developed over many years, acclaimed writer and mentor Kathryn Heyman will help you develop new techniques, find character voice and the voice for your novel or memoir. You will leave the class with a stronger sense of your writerly voice and vision, a deeper understanding of your characters and a toolkit of techniques to carry into your writing.

Includes catered lunch (please enter any dietary requirements on form)

You will learn:

• how to discover, deepen, and develop your writing voice
• the right questions to ask of a creative project
• how to break writerly habits (and find new ones) and discover a new voice
• how to develop character voice
• techniques to marry form and content, so that the voice you write in is the truest one for your project

About Kathryn Heyman

Hon. Professor Kathryn Heyman 's seventh book, the memoir Fury, was nominated for the international Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and won the Copyright Agency Author Fellowship. Fury is currently in development as a feature film. Alongside her publishing career, she has written dramas for stage and radio. Her dramas for the BBC include adaptations of her own novels. Her previous work has won the Wingate, Southern Arts and Arts Council of England Writing Awards in the UK and been nominated for awards including the Edinburgh Critics Awards, Scottish Writer of the Year, the Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize), the Kibble Prize and the West Australian Premier’s Literary Awards. She is also the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.

"Heyman's cool-eyed compassion for her characters draws out their humanity while staring hard at their flaws. The marvel is that the frailty she discovers in her women and men turns out to be the foundation of their greatest strengths. It is a paradox notated in language of poetic force and loveliness. A moving, graceful and fiercely interrogated work." - Geordie Williamson, Chief Literary Critic for The Australian