Creative Writing at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Writing at the Centre
1 Finnerty St, Fremantle, Western Australia

I am the prose tutor at the Fremantle Arts Centre. If you're new to writing, or are planning to write fiction then these classes are for you. My aim is to guide writers over time to achieve their goals. Learning to write is all about trial and error. There is no quick fix. It's all about "getting started", "getting it written" & "using what you know." Our workshops offer a step-by-step guide through a broad range of literary techniques and forms, including the short story, flash fiction, vignette, prose poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir and life writing. Writers generally look at the short story form which enables them to learn the basics of style, narrative structure, characterization, plot, dialogue, exploring life experience, editing, etc. and how to employ these through writing exercises.

This week at the FAC (20/2/09), we will be looking at "The Confines of Plotting".

Poetry classes are run by Shane McCauley alternative Fridays to the Prose class. The class concentrates on the form, enabling new, emerging, or published poets to enhance their poetic writing skills, knowledge and technique.

Why not come along, join in the fun, each Friday from 10.00am to noon. We encourage writers of all ages, beginners, intermediate and published writers. Have lunch under the trees with the Out of The Asylum writers in the gothic atmosphere of the Fremantle Arts Centre, where even Edgar Allan Poe would feel comfortable. For a .pdf class brochure contact Helen -hagemannDOThelenATgmailDOTcom or download our 2-page brochure from the website.
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