Do you want to cultivate a creative writing practice?

Feeling stuck on any current writing projects?

Or just want two hours of prompted, productive writing time to give a fresh perspective on your work?

Join award-winning American author Sarah Sentilles for two hours of inspiring and productive writing time. This workshop draws on Sarah's expertise as an international writing teacher specialising in generative writing techniques to stimulate creativity and sharpen skills and intuition. Explore evocative concepts of transcendence, miscommunication, longing, and the power of language — all while developing your own writing projects.

Sarah will lead participants through a series of writing prompts designed to inspire and help you experiment, play, and break through blocks, habits, and writing ruts. Open to all genres and levels of experience. Everyone is welcome!

Note: This is an online course through Zoom. You will be emailed a Zoom link a week prior to the online workshop, and again on the morning of the workshop.

When: Friday 21 March

Time: 9am - 11am AEDT

Cost: General price $90 +$2.75BF (AUD) / Festival Friend price $70 + $2.25BF (AUD)

Where: Online via Zoom

We only have 40 spots available for this workshop, so be quick to secure your place.

About Sarah

Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN America Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She’s had residencies at Hedgebrook and Yaddo. She earned a bachelor's degree at Yale and master's and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She is the co-founder of The Alliance of Idaho, which protects the human rights of immigrants.

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