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Rottnest Island Writers Retreat..

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity coming up at the end of the month.

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Weekend July 31 - August 1st 2010

Janet Jackson - Contemporary Poetry Writing

This course is for beginning poets and those with some experience. Explore contemporary poetry writing in a friendly group setting with a much-published poet as your guide.

With a series of writing activities, exercises and experiments we will release our poetic voices, finding inspiration in our surroundings, in other texts and art, and in randomness. We will discover and invent new connections and ideas. We will learn about form, content, voice, address and imagery. We will explore the music of words, how poets make them sing, sigh and cry.

We will also learn about editing and improving our poems to make them more beautiful, more satisfying and perhaps more publishable.

Participants will receive a booklet with example poems, information about techniques and activities, further reading and resources.

Wednesday Mornings 10am - 12noon beginning July 21st
At Tom Collins House
Members $30 Non members $45

Short & Sweet 10 minute Playwriting Workshop

Three Hour Playwriting Workshop by Alex Broun on "How to Write a Ten Minute Play"

1.30pm-4.30pm on Sunday July 25th 2010
Tom Collins House
$45 non members, $30 members

The aims of the workshop are to Inspire participants to write a ten-minute play, by acknowledging and embracing their own inherent stories and natural creativity, and then Inform them with the basic techniques and tools to write the play.

The workshop explores the following areas: What is a ten minute play? What to write your ten minute play about? Learn the four stages of writing a play. Possible styles for your play, Story Structure: Beginning Middle and End and the Secret to writing a good ten minute play.

No playwriting experience is necessary to attend the course and writers of all levels of experience are welcome.

By attending the workshop local writers will be energised to write their own ten minute play which can then be performed within the local community or entered to the numerous ten minute play festivals, such as Short+Sweet, springing up around Australia and the world.

By the end of the workshop all participants will hopefully have a number of ideas for a ten minute play and then using the information they have acquired in the workshop, including handouts to take away and refer to, they will then have the tools required to write the play.

Many participants from Alex Broun’s playwriting workshops have then gone on to write plays that have been performed in Australia and across the globe.

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