Workshop: Landscape Writing
Place and landscapes are often overlooked in stories when they could be used as powerful drivers of character and narrative. This workshop aims to redress this through a series of readings, writing exercises and discussions which assist writers to re-imagine their relationship with the natural world and guide them in new ways of thinking and writing about place.
This three-hour interactive workshop is brought to you by the 2023 Brisbane Writers Festival. Throughout the session, Sally Piper, author of the novels Bone Memories and The Geography of Friendship, will take writers on a deep dive into their relationship with the natural world, providing them with ideas and strategies to write about landscapes in a way that compellingly transports their representation of place beyond the sensory to the emotional, philosophical and political. All participants need bring with them to this generative workshop is a pen, paper and a passion for the places that sustain us, and a desire to write about them in new and meaningful ways.
Venue: Heritage Collections Learning Room, State Library of Queensland
Date: Saturday 13 May
Time: 10am - 1pm
Bookings for this event are essential and can be made here through the BWF website.
