SATURDAY 16 MARCH 2024
SHOW UP AND WRITE - with Ashley Hay
10am - 4pm - Full Day Workshop
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The gap between the great idea you have for that great story and getting a final (or even a first!) draft settled on the page can feel insurmountable. No amount of magical thinking will get around it: the only way to get your story written is to write it!
This workshop invites you to carve out a day of your time – and some pre-planning – for the story you’re itching to tell: fiction, non-fiction, memoir, whatever the form. Work with writer and editor Ashley Hay on both the specifics of your project – and how to identify its pitfalls and potentials – as well as a toolbox of tricks that will help you to keep turning up to face the page.
This workshop includes a set of writing prompts ahead of the full-day group class; at least three hours of dedicated writing time while you’re there; plus tips and tricks for planning, productivity and discipline to keep your project moving when your day at Avid ends – and a half-hour zoom consultation on the next steps you’d like to take.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ashley Hay’s work has been praised for its ‘intelligent scrutiny of the human psyche’, ‘a tenderness that is deeply compelling’ and its ‘simple grace’. Her three novels – The Body in the Clouds, The Railwayman’s Wife and A Hundred Small Lessons – have received various prizes and nominations and been published internationally and in translation; a revised and expanded edition of her narrative non-fiction Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, was published in 2021. She works as a writer, editor, facilitator and mentor, and has published essays and articles in journals and anthologies including Cosmos, The Guardian, Reading Like an Australian Writer and Living in the Anthropocene. Between 2018 and 2022 she was the editor of Griffith Review.
