MASTERCLASS SERIES

Chasing History

Mirandi Riwoe

SUNDAY 20 AUGUST 2023
10.00 AM – 1.00 PM
Marie Reay Teaching Centre
Kambri Cultural Centre (ANU)

In this workshop with acclaimed novelist, 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 writing process, and practice techniques for incorporating 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.

MAX PARTICIPANTS: 20

Artist

MIRANDI RIWOE is the author of Sunbirds. Her novel, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award 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 short fiction and novellas can be found in the collection The Burnished Sun.