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Our Monsters, Our Selves: Writing Horror that Resonates
Horror is having a moment, and it is more than just jump scares. Develop a toolkit for building atmosphere, tension and character in horror writing with award-winning author Katya de Becerra.
Dialogue Through an Actor’s Lens
Learn acting techniques to tackle dialogue in fiction and non-fiction.
Bodies in Flux: Writing while Hormoning
You see, women are multitaskers because we’ve always adapted | to changes in estrogen during the many stages of our lives, | during the various stages of each month, during every minute | of every day. Our body is always doing something with hormones | while it does something else with a ladle or spade, | a phone or a car, a computer, a baby, a book. From ‘Some Questions I Ask Myself When I Cannot Sleep’ If this poem resonates, then this workshop is for you.
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On Writing the Body in Flux: A Q&A with Heather Taylor Johnson
Ahead of her Writers Victoria workshop, Heather Taylor Johnson discusses with Program Manager Gabriella Munoz her experiences of representing the body in flux, experimenting with structure and legitimising women’s issues through discussion and writing. Heather’s recently released poetry collection is I Lost Someone Then Found Them in My Body, where she discusses among other things her experience of perimenopause. Her work has…