SATURDAY 27 JULY 2024 | HALF DAY WORKSHOP
10am-1pm
Join us for Sweet Mangoes - writing the senses with Patti Miller
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
For memoirists and fiction writers who want to create the hum of lived experience on the page. Explore and extend the texture of your writing. Write the touch, taste, smell, sound and look of the world: hot sand underfoot, the aroma of crushed eucalypt leaves, the taste of sweet mangoes, the sense of being in a body. With the help of silk blindfolds, re-awaken your senses and find the words to express the world around you.
ABOUT THE TUTOR
Patti Miller is the author of ten critically acclaimed books: The Last One Who Remembers, Whatever The Gods Do, The Mind of a Thief, (award-winning and on VCE curriculum), Ransacking Paris, The Joy of High Places, Child, (a novel) and best-selling texts, Writing Your Life , The Memoir Book and Writing True Stories. Her latest book is memoir/creative nonfiction, True Friends published in 2022. Her next book, out 3rd June, is the new edition of Writing True Stories.
Patti is also published in newspapers and journals, including SMH, Melbourne Age, The Australian, The Guardian, The Adelaide Advertiser, Island, Southerly, Meanjin. She teaches writing at universities, Faber Academy (Sydney and London), Writers’ Centres around Australia and in Paris.