Voice is Everything with Sarah Kanake

Find your unique voice and transform your writing

This 3-hour workshop is designed to help you uncover and refine your unique writing style. You’ll start by understanding your distinct voice, shaped by your experiences and perspective. Using guided exercises, you’ll explore your creative strengths and master essential elements such as structure, language choices, tone, and rhythm. Combining practical techniques with opportunities for experimentation and feedback, the workshop blends self-expression with technical skill, enabling you to craft a voice that is authentically yours and engaging to your audience.

Learning outcomes

In this workshop, you will:

• Find your unique voice and understand your distinct writing style.
• Enhance your technical skill - structure, language choices, tone, and rhythm.
• Utilise feedback and experimentation to refine and elevate your writing.

Format

This is an in-person workshop with a focus on writing craft; it will be held at State Library of Queensland. This workshop is suitable for fiction and non-fiction writers of all levels and writing backgrounds.

About Sarah

Sarah Kanake is a short story writer and novelist with a PhD in Creative Writing. She teaches creative and professional writing at QUT and also works at State Library of Queensland. Her short fiction has been published in The Southerly, Kill Your Darlings, Award Winning Australian Writing and The Lifted Brow. She has been shortlisted for the Overland Short Story Prize, won the QUT Postraduate Writing Award, been longlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Award and recently won the Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition. Her debut novel is called Sing Fox to Me and was released in 2016.

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