SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2024 | 10.00am - 1.00pm

WRITING MEMOIR with Kari Gislason

This is a half day workshop exploring techniques used in memoir with tutor Kari Gislason author of many memoirs including Running with Pirates.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

While writing about family often feels like a necessity, a way to understand our lived experience, it can also be difficult to write engagingly about those who are very close to us. This half-day workshop will offer writing techniques for portraying people we know, for developing themes and questions in family stories, for using family patterns as storytelling shapes, and for including memory and place in our narratives of home.

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Kári Gíslason is a writer and academic who teaches creative writing and literary studies at QUT. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), which told the story of return journeys he’s made to his birthplace, and the novels The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015) and The Sorrow Stone (UQP, 2022). He is also the co-author, with Richard Fidler, of Saga Land (HarperCollins, 2017), which won the Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2018.