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Mid-year scholarship information session

w/ Deborah Robertson, Eleanor Limprecht, Luke Horton and J.S. Breukelaar

In this special free interactive information session, join our tutors from around the country as they discuss what to expect from their courses and how to best prepare your scholarship application.

Thursday 30 May, 6pm – 7pm (AEST)

FREE


This is a past course.

For one night only, join authors and tutors Deborah Robertson (Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book), Eleanor Limprecht (Writing a Novel – Sydney), Luke Horton (Writing a Novel – Melbourne) and J.S. Breukelaar (Writing Speculative Fiction) as they talk about their courses, exploring topics covered and the guest speakers you might encounter, how the Faber Writing Anthology leads students to success, and how they will help you get as close as possible to finishing a draft of your manuscript across the year.

They will also talk you through putting together a compelling application for the upcoming scholarship round – how to grab their attention and make your project sing. What should you focus on in telling us why this is a story only you can tell? Together, they will talk about how much time you might need to put aside to write outside of class and the bonds that develop between students, often leading to the formation of lifelong writing groups.

This is an extremely rare opportunity to spend an hour with four of Australia’s most exciting writers and brilliant teachers. Come prepared with questions you’ve long wanted to ask about studying writing! Places are free.

 


Writers you'll be working with:

Deborah Robertson

Deborah Robertson is a West-Australian born writer and teacher, now based in Melbourne. Her first book, Proudflesh, won The Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award, and her first novel, Careless, received the Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers and the Colin Roderick Award. It was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Age…

Eleanor Limprecht

Eleanor Limprecht is the author of four novels: The Coast, The Passengers, Long Bay and What Was Left (shortlisted for the 2014 ALS Gold Medal). Eleanor’s short fiction and essays have been published various places including Best Australian Stories,  Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, Sydney Noir and The Big Issue. She’s been the…

Luke Horton

Luke Horton is a writer, critic and creative writing lecturer from Naarm. His debut novel, The Fogging, was highly commended for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and published by Scribe in 2020. The former editor of The Lifted Brow Review of Books, Luke has a PhD from the University of Melbourne,…

J.S. Breukelaar

J.S. Breukelaar is an Australian-American author living in Sydney. She is the author of three novels, most recently The Bridge, and two collections of short stories, in addition to essays, poems and fiction appearing in numerous publications and several Years Bests. Her work has won or been a finalist for multiple national and international awards,…

Course outline

One hour information session to be hosted on ZOOM, including time for Q&A.

How to Book

This is a past course.