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Imagined Libraries: creative writing workshop with Andrew Tucker 

Thu 14 November 2024
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Online via Microsoft Teams

Free
Accessible
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11/14/2024 7:00 pm 11/14/2024 8:30 pm Imagined Libraries: creative writing workshop with Andrew Tucker  Imagined Libraries: The First 6,000 YearsJoin Boroondara Library Service virtual writer in residence, Andrew Tucker, for a creative writing workshop focusing on the history of libraries (both real and fictional), imagined spaces and point of view.In this one-off online session (roughly 1 hour 15 mins), you’ll work on your world-building skills to design your own dream library - fantastical, majestic or sinister. Then you’ll hone your Point of View skills by writing a tense scene set in this new imaginary space.Writer in ResidenceAndrew comes to us via Melbourne - City of Literature (UNESCO)’s Virtual Writer in Residence program and will be presenting the workshop from his home in Nottingham, UK. He is a freelance writer, award-winning poet and sometime musician. The Virtual Writer in Residence program offers writers and communities the opportunity to connect with and inspire one another and to build relationships in the field of literature - we’re excited to be hosting Andrew in the library’s online spaces for the whole month of November. , City of Boroondara [email protected] Australia/Melbourne public

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Imagined Libraries: The First 6,000 Years

Join Boroondara Library Service virtual writer in residence, Andrew Tucker, for a creative writing workshop focusing on the history of libraries (both real and fictional), imagined spaces and point of view.

In this one-off online session (roughly 1 hour 15 mins), you’ll work on your world-building skills to design your own dream library - fantastical, majestic or sinister. Then you’ll hone your Point of View skills by writing a tense scene set in this new imaginary space.

Writer in Residence

Andrew comes to us via Melbourne - City of Literature (UNESCO)’s Virtual Writer in Residence program and will be presenting the workshop from his home in Nottingham, UK. He is a freelance writer, award-winning poet and sometime musician. The Virtual Writer in Residence program offers writers and communities the opportunity to connect with and inspire one another and to build relationships in the field of literature - we’re excited to be hosting Andrew in the library’s online spaces for the whole month of November.

Register now
Contact
Boroondara Library Service Team
(03) 9278 4666
Libraries page
[email protected]