Library As Muse

In an age where critical reading is often sidelined, how can we reclaim reading as a collective praxis and an act of care? This workshop invites a coming together and engage in collective reading of an essay and non-fiction pieces on migration in so-called Australia.

Join this limited-capacity workshop as award-winning author and tutor Luke Horton helps get your novel’s opening chapter submission ready.

By inviting workshop participants to write against the attempted silencing of emerging writers, we will consider what it means to create in danger, under censorship, and the importance of free creative expression.

In an evening part-workshop part-roundtable, emerging writer Chris Ames will explain how some principles of comedy can be used to tighten narrative structures, resolve discomfort, and improve all kinds of stories—from absurdist, high-concept short fiction to your sad novel about a marriage in disrepair.