Creative Writing: Reality as a Source of Inspiration and Imagination
Lies, disguise and camouflage: Reality as a source of inspiration and imagination for the fictionally challenged! Join Judith White for a stimulating approach to creative writing.
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Sat 16 Aug
- $220.00 incl. GST
Sessions
Session 1
Sat 16 Aug 10:00 - Sat 16 Aug 16:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 2
Sun 17 Aug 10:00 - Sun 17 Aug 16:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Please note there is NO refund or transfer if you cancel less than 5 working days in advance of a class starting. Our refund policy can be read in full here.
Description
This workshop will play with the manipulation and harnessing of imagination, observation and experience with a view to practical application through writing fiction.
There will be exercises encouraging students to work in class. Guidance will be given on breaking into new work, looking at ideas and what to do with them, and the development of different aspects of writing techniques including character, dialogue, point of view, setting, narrative voice and sentimentality.
About your tutor
Judith was born in Wellington and went to school in Hastings.
She was the secretary of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors for several years in the 1980s. She has taught creative writing courses for over two decades, and has worked as a one-on-one mentor for the AUT Creative Writing Masters (MCW) programme, and for the NZSA mentorship scheme. She now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
Judith is the author of two novels The Elusive Language of Ducks (Penguin Random House, 2013), Across the Dreaming Night (Penguin Random House, 1999; Oneworld Publications UK 2014; China Times Publishing Company, 2015). She has also published a short story collection Visiting Ghosts (Hodder and Stoughton, 1991; Timeless Tangerine, 1991).
She won the 1988 BNZ Katherine Mansfield Centenary Award and has twice won the Auckland Star short story competition (1987 and 1990) as well as placing third in 2009. Judith was awarded the Frank Sargeson Fellowship in 1995. She has been shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards.
Writer's Weekend Opening Address 9am Saturday 16 August 2025
You are invited to attend our opening address at 9am on Saturday 16 August 2025. Carole Beu from The Women's Bookshop will fire up the day with an early morning talk on her raves and faves. Have a cuppa, listen to Carole and meet others. Please register here so we know how many to expect.
