Story in Six Weeks with Mary Anne Butler

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This engaging online workshop series with award-winning Territory author Mary Anne Butler, supports participants to produce a solid narrative map from which to complete their longer form story, novel, novella, memoir or stage play. Sessions will cover essential skills of the craft including character, voice, theme, narrative stakes, plot, structure, dialogue and nailing down a central question to guide you through the work.

Mary Anne Butler’s plays have won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier’s Drama Award, Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, a stage AWGIE and two NT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year Awards. She’s been nominated for the Griffin Theatre Award and twice for the Nick Enright Award [NSW Literary Awards]. Mary Anne is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, Arts NT Fellow, Winston Churchill Fellow, Regional Arts Fellow and Asialink Fellow. She holds an MPhil in Creative Writing, MEd in Arts Education, and is undertaking a PhD in Literature, investigating how we write hope into the realist literature of the Anthropocene.

Sun 26 Mar, 2-5pm ACST
Sun 2 Apr, 2-5pm ACST
Sun 9 Apr (Easter Sunday break)
Sun 16 Apr, 2-5pm ACST
Sun 23 Apr, 2-5pm ACST
Sun 30 Apr, 2-5pm ACST
Sun 7 May, 2-5pm ACST