Harnessing Wonder with Kathryn Heyman: A Creative Writing Workshop

Learn to make your words and characters sing with wonder in this creative writing workshop hosted by Kathryn Heyman.

In celebration of the release of Circle of Wonders, Books in the Brewery are proud to present this exclusive Perth workshop hosted by international multi-award winning author Kathryn Heyman.

Rich, luscious writing is writing which has wonder in it - wonder on the page, and the life in the writing of it. In this workshop for writers (and aspiring writers) we’ll explore ways of making your words and characters sing with wonder.

How do you make a character seem alive? How do you create a sense of place which is convincing? And how do you keep the sense of life and joy in your writing process?

Whether you’re working on short stories, a novel or a memoir, this inspiring session will help you awaken your curiosity and wonder, and find new ways into your writing. Using practical exercises, you’ll dream up scenes, play with images and flesh out characters.

About Kathryn Heyman

KATHRYN HEYMAN is the author of six previous novels, and the acclaimed memoir, Fury. She has won numerous awards including an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the international Folio Prize, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics' Awards, the Kibble Prize, the West Australian Premier's Book Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

Her plays for BBC Radio include adaptations of her own work. A previous Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Westminster College, Oxford, she was also the Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and received the Copyright Agency Author Fellowship for Fury, which is in development as a feature film.