Byron Writers Festival 2022

WORKSHOP SOLD OUT – email [email protected] to join the waitlist.

In this half-day masterclass, Stella Prize-winner Emily Bitto will take you on a deep dive into theme, symbolism and imagery, and how these interact with and influence one another. The course is ideally suited to writers who have a project on the go, no matter how big or small. With a mixture of tuition, examples and exercises, Emily will help you to understand the macro-level themes at the heart of your project and how to use these as a way of generating plot, character, and scenes, as well as enriching your prose on the level of the sentence and image. The aim of this empowering course is to provide you with valuable techniques you can continue to use and develop into the future.

Date: Wednesday 24 August
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Where: Byron Community Centre, Wategos 2. Upstairs at 69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay
Cost:  $85 General / $60 Members & Students

Supported by Faber Writing Academy

About the Facilitator

Emily Bitto is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has a Masters in Literary Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her debut novel, The Strays, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and the published novel went on to win the 2015 Stella Prize. The Strays was published in the US, UK, Canada and Portugal, and rights for a television adaptation are currently under option. Her second novel, Wild Abandon, was published in October 2021 by Allen and Unwin. It is currently longlisted for the 2022 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year award and shortlisted for the 2022 ALS Gold Medal. Emily has been teaching creative writing for over a decade, and is currently a teacher and course advisor at the Faber Writing Academy. She is also the co-founder of Melbourne wine bars Heartattack and Vine and Shabooh Shoobah.