Writing Place with Lee Kofman
Create a compelling atmosphere and the right mood in your work, and express its emotional truth through setting.
Place in which you set your fiction or creative non-fiction is crucial to creating a compelling atmosphere and the right mood in your work. Think of Remarque’s haunted wartime Europe or Lorrie Moore’s hilarious contemporary Midwest. In this workshop you'll deepen your understanding on the role of place in a human life. You will learn how to use place in order to express the emotional truth of your characters, as well as of your story. You will also learn how to turn places, real or imaginary, into characters in their own right. This course incorporates theory, discussion and practical exercises.
Learning outcomes
To understand the role of place in literature and in their work
To learn how to use place to add psychological depth to work
To learn how to use place to express emotional truth of work
To learn how to write place as a character of its own
Vivid writing techniques
Format
This is a hybrid workshop with a focus on craft; it will be held in-person at Queensland Writers Centre and live-streamed simultaneously to an online audience. It is a level 1 course suitable for writers of all levels.
About Lee
Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian author of three fiction books and two memoirs, including Imperfect (Affirm Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for Nib Literary Award, and The Dangerous Bride (Melbourne University Press, 2014), co-editor of Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016) and editor of Split (Ventura Press, 2019), which was longlisted for ABIA Awards – anthologies of memoir by prominent Australian authors. Her short works have been widely published in Australia, US, UK, Scotland, Israel and Canada; her blog was a finalist for Best Australian Blogs 2014. Lee’s most recent book is The Writer Laid Bare (Ventura Press) about writing.
For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info