Your tutor, Shokoofeh Azar, will introduce practical techniques to enhance creative writing and visualisation that will help you explore how these personal experiences can be interwoven with history, geography, politics, or philosophy, and poetry.
This approach allows each story to acquire social and literary depth. Ultimately, participants will discover how to find their own authentic voice and perspective, developing a unique literary narrative.
You will learn:
How to turn memories into a story that have a personal narrative voice
Useful techniques to research and take notes on story background
How to transform a simple story into one of migration/exile
The significance of migration literature in the era of large-scale global migrations
What leading migration writers have contributed to world literature.
Shokoofeh Azar is an Iranian-Australian journalist and writer who sought asylum in Australia in 2010 after being imprisoned for her work in Iran. She writes acclaimed fiction in the magical realism genre, drawing on Iranian myth, legend, politics, and true stories. Her debut novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, PEN, and Stella Prize, and translated into twelve languages. Her second novel, The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen, will be released in June 2025 by Europa Editions and Allen & Unwin across the US, UK, Australia, and more.
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