What’s On

Grab a coffee or bring a thermos and take part in a casual, themed writing session, with prompts, silent writing time and a chance to catch up and mingle with other local writers.

Open to all members with an interest in writing. The sessions are held at Bangalow Heritage House Museum (4 Ashton St, Bangalow NSW 2479) and participants are welcome to stay on after the session and make use of the space until midday.

NEXT SESSION – Friday 1 November

Theme: Exploring Symbolism and Metaphor (+ it’s NANoWriMo!) with Emily Brugman

10am – 11am – Exploring Symbolism and Metaphor

In this meeting we will explore examples of metaphor and symbolism in fiction. Emily will tell us about how she used these techniques in The Islands, and how she is attempting to make use of them in her current writing project. The group will then attempt to incorporate symbolism and/or metaphor in a piece of their own.

11am – 12pm – Quiet Writing Time for Day 1 of NANoWriMo

It’s also the first day of National Novel Writing Month in the US. NaNoWrMo began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. So why not stay on after the first hour and write as much as we can while we have use of the space?

About Emily:
Emily is a writer based in the Northern Rivers. Her first novel The Islands was longlisted for the Indie Book Awards and shortlisted for the Mud Literary Award. Emily is part of the programming team at Byron Writers Festival.

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