The Art of Reading (to Improve Your Writing)

Details

In this collaborative writing and reading workshop, you’ll discover methods for unearthing lessons of craft by reading the work of others with writer Sarah Giles. Sarah will help you identify craft in the writing of others by, first, giving examples and talking you through her own interpretation and reading practice. Then, she will provide you with tools for close textual analysis and help you to utilise them to understand how an author achieves certain effects through their use of voice, perspective, detail, setting, metaphor, structure and other elements of creative writing craft. You will spend time applying what you have learned to your own fiction or narrative non-fiction through discussion as well as reflective and writing exercises.

You Will Learn:

• How understanding the writing of others can help you find your own style.
• Develop critical reading skills to help you understand craft through reading.
• Exercises to help you apply what you’ve learned through reading to your own writing.
• The value of reading critically as a writer.

About the Tutor:

Sarah Giles is a writer, PhD candidate, and a sessional academic teaching to creative writing courses. Her short stories have been published in TEXT Journal, ACE IV, The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, ACE III and The Incompleteness Book, among others. Sarah works as the Marketing and Memberships Officer for Writers Victoria and is on the Executive Committee of Management of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP).