Peer Editing

In this choice of material-focused workshops at Pink Ember Studio in Coburg, comics-maker Emilie Walsh will teach you to either design and make your own Viewmaster comics reels, or design and make your own custom Ex-libris stamp (includes carving, inking and printing). Book both workshops, or a single workshop.

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 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.

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.