Writing About Hurt, Hope, and Identity with Chemutai Glasheen

Growing up can be messy. It is a complex journey of self-discovery. This workshop will help you find your voice as you use it to tell powerful stories that capture that experience. Through engaging exercises, we will learn how to craft authentic and meaningful narratives and explore how to create characters who face conflicts and inner struggles but somehow find hope as they learn about themselves.

About the Presenter

Chemutai Glasheen is a sessional academic at Curtin University, as well as a teacher and writer. She writes fiction for young audiences, drawing inspiration from her background in human rights and education. Her short story collection, I Am the Mau and Other Stories, is published by Fremantle Press and was released in August 2023. Her creative work has appeared in Unlimited Futures, Meniscus (Volume 9, Issue 2), ACE: Arresting Contemporary Stories by Emerging Writers. She has served as a writer-in-residence at the Centre for Stories and has been a featured guest and presenter at the Perth Writers Festival, Disrupted Festival of Ideas, In Conversation: Human Rights and the Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival (Geraldton).

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