THE MASTERCLASS SERIES

Thanks to the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, we are bringing you a series of three exclusive masterclasses that are unmissable opportunities! We’re privileged to have the expertise of these leading national and international well known authors to share with you in a once in a life time chance to perfect your creative fiction, non fiction or creative non fiction skills.

And it doesn’t stop there! On the back of the success of last year’s forums, we’ll be hosting thought provoking industry forums to follow these brilliant masterclasses. Details available soon.

Be sure to book as these exclusive masterclasses WILL sell out.

Creative Writing Masterclass with Porochista Khakpour

2pm – 5pm, Thursday 26 February

Founded on the idea that endings are intrinsically unnatural to us as living human beings who never truly experience our own ‘ends’, this workshop explores the difficulties in crafting a ‘genuine’ ending to a story. Author Porochista Khakpour asks – how does beginning the story with an awareness of where it will end change the process? What happens when we formulate a story from the ending back? And what is the ultimate responsibility of an ending? She invites you to examine the attempts of poets, essayists, short-story writers and novelists.

Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles. She has been awarded fellowships from the Writing Seminars, , the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Yaddo. Her debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a Times ‘Editor’s Choice’, ‘Fall’s Best’ and 2007 California Book Award winner. The Last Illusion, her second novel is enjoying great critical success in both the United States and abroad.

Non Fiction Masterclass with Antony Loewenstein

2pm – 5pm, Sunday 1 March

Provoke and impress in journalism and opinion writing! Join best-selling journalist, author and Guardian columnist Antony Loewenstein in a masterclass designed to learn the techniques to write compelling opinion columns on a range of subjects from politics to war and social trends to drugs. How can you stand out? How do you pitch? What's the best way to think of original story ideas that will attract an editor's attention? Why should you provoke? This class will give you an insider's view of the craft. You'll leave with new writing skills, confidence and a smile.

Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentarian and blogger who has written for The BBC, The Nation, Huffington Post and Haaretz, amongst many others. He is a weekly Guardian columnist. He is the author of three bestselling books, My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World, co-writer of For God's Sake and co-editor of Left Turn and After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. He is currently working on a new book and film on disaster capitalism. His website is here. Follow him on twitter @antloewenstein

Creative Non Fiction Masterclass with Miranda Richmond Mouillot

2pm – 5pm, Tuesday 3 March

Subject Into Story: Wrestling Nonfiction into Narrative. More info to follow.

Miranda Richmond Mouillot was born in the United States, but now lives in the South of France, and has recently published a memoir about her grandparents’ marriage entitled A Fifty-Year Silence. Richmond Mouillot’s grandparents were both Holocaust survivors whose marriage failed after the war and her attempts to unearth the long-kept secret of their marriage is both a fascinating story as well as a meditation on war and it’s legacies as well as a coming of age story of a young woman in France.

Held at SA Writers Centre Level 2, 187 Rundle Street Adelaide

Cost: $60 each (for members) $90 each (for non members)

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL AND THESE MASTERCLASSES WILL BOOK OUT. Please book via www.sawriters.org.au or [email protected] or 8223 7662

Exclusive Workshops in partnership with Adelaide Writers Week and SA Writers Centre.