SUNDAY 7 MAY 2023
WRITING AND RESEARCHING HISTORICAL FICTION - with Mirandi Riwoe
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this workshop with Mirandi Riwoe, you will learn in what ways research can enhance both your writing practice and historical fiction. Through authorial insights, discussion and a series of writing exercises, you will further develop your own research and writing process, and practice techniques for incorporating your research into a work of fiction. The workshop will suit people who are at the beginning of their writing project or who are struggling to manage their research process and output.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her latest work is The Burnished Sun, a collection of short stories and novellas. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).
