During this five-workshop series, you’ll discover the impetus, conventions and techniques of creative non-fiction, coming out with a solid draft ready for submission. Prolific editor and writer Adolfo Aranjuez will teach you about structure, style, perspective and voice and how to leverage authority when you represent the world. He’ll also introduce you to the logic behind ‘the personal is political’, and why your school English teacher was right all along about ‘audience and purpose’.
You’ll also benefit from one-on-one feedback from Adolfo. He will give your piece the editorial TLC it requires to set you on your writerly path.
Come along with a creative non-fiction piece of up to 1,200 words, which you’ll progressively strengthen by incorporating his feedback between sessions. If your piece is longer than that, supply a 1,200-word extract instead. Adolfo will also assign readings to discuss and/or dissect in subsequent sessions.
You will learn:
- How to use audience (readership) and purpose (intended message/impact) to both anchor and propel your piece
- How truth is central to creative non-fiction, and how to capitalise on your author-ity (unique subjective take) with it
- How to balance the personal (reminiscence) and the political (rigour), and avoid the common trap of self-indulgence in creative non-fiction
- How structure, style, perspective and voice can greatly (re)shape a work, even when tackling the same subject matter
About the tutor:
Adolfo Aranjuez is an editor and writer with almost two decades experience across periodical, book and digital/web publishing. He has held editorial tenures for the anti-racist literary platform Liminal, screen journal Metro, LGBTQIA+ magazine Archer and the Melbourne International Film Festival. His freelance clients include book publishers, arts institutions and literary organisations. His essays, criticism and poetry have been published widely, including in Meanjin, Right Now, Overland, Kill Your Darlings and Cordite. Find out more: adolfoaranjuez.com
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