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Dianne Wolfer will present a workshop on Bringing Local Stories to Life Book your place in one of the great events or workshops. Please note online bookings have now closed.

All workshops and the presentation will be held in the LibraryMuseum. You can come in and book through the LibraryMuseum, phone your booking through on 02 6023 8333.

Writing Children’s Books  - Karen Tayleur

In this fun and informative workshop bestselling author Karen Tayleur will guide you through the process of writing a children’s book - from character development to believable dialogue to developing strong plotlines. She will show you the tricks of the trade that will make your own writing stronger.

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

10am-11.45am Saturday 8 August

Limit 20

The Comic Jam - Mandy Ord

Explore a pictorial history of the comic book medium. Traverse groundbreaking territory beginning from the early pioneers through to the underground and alternative movements and then arriving at much loved contemporary heroes. Participate in a freestyle comic jam session and learn to create your own vivid comic stories. All that and more at The Comic Jam.

 

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

12noon - 1.45pm Saturday 8 August

Limit 20

Writing for Young Adults

Dorothy Simmons

In this workshop, the focus is on the what, the why and the how of writing for young adult readers. What is your idea, why is it relevant to young people, how can you engage them in your story? Bring pen and paper!

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

12 noon – 1.45pm Saturday 8 August

Limit 20

Writing Memoir - Workshop Booked Out

Alice Pung

Join Alice Pung, author of the much acclaimed memoir, Unpolished Gem. This workshop will help bring out techniques for telling stories using material from your own life and explore characterisation, language, and voice and ways to shape a memoir.

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

2pm-3.45pm Saturday 8 August

Limit 20

Publishing Children’s Books – Presentation

Helen Chamberlin with Gordon Reece and Vilma Cencic

You’ve written and/or illustrated your children’s book and are now ready to take the next step – finding a publisher. Helen Chamberlin is a publishing consultant and former children’s publisher of Lothian Children’s Books, an imprint of Hachette Australia, and will share her expertise on the right way to go about having your book published.  She’ll be joined by Mudgegonga author Gordon Reece, and illustrator for his book, What Does your Daddy Do?, Vilma Cencic.

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

2pm-3.45pm Saturday 8 August

Limit 30

Bringing Local Stories to Life

Dianne Wolfer

Daily life and information in historical archives can be great material for the fiction writer.  Join Dianne Wolfer, author of 12 books including her latest, Lighthouse Girl, inspired by the life of Fay Catherine Howe, the Breaksea Island Lighthouse Keeper's daughter as she points you in the right direction for this exciting genre.

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

10am-11.45am Sunday 9 August

Limit 20

Writing Communities into the Mainstream - Due to unforseen circumstances this workshop has been cancelled.

Campion Decent

A workshop led by Campion Decent that looks at the ethical, craft-based and practical issues in creating theatre from community stories. The workshop includes a case study of the development of the writer's play EMBERS (return season at Albury Entertainment Centre on 7-8 August prior to national touring). The play, produced by HotHouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company, premiered in Albury-Wodonga in 2006 prior to a season in Sydney and touring regionally. It subsequently won an AWGIE and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Drama Script (Stage). 

Cost: adults $38, concession $20

2pm-3.45pm Sunday 9 August

Limit 20

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