EDITING YOUR OWN WORK with Peter Polites// Sunday 3 November // 1:00pm - 4:00pm // Venue: Blue Mountains Cultural Centre; Multipurpose Room // Part of the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers' Festival
Ernest Hemingway once said writing is rewriting. He understood that while writing can be a truly demanding process, it’s the editing of your work that can be hardest of all.
In this workshop with award-winning novelist Peter Polites, you’ll discover key strategies for editing your own work. You’ll unpack the use of grammar in your work, explore techniques for editing structure, and hone your editing skills using a mix of hands-on practice during the workshop, as well as worksheets to take home.
Please bring in a brief amount of your prose to work on.
Peter Polites is a novelist. He has written two queer noirs, Down the Hume and The Pillars, which won the 2020 NSW Premier's Multicultural Literary Award. He also won the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2021 he was the ACT Writer in Residence at UNSW Canberra.
/ A Blue Mountains Writers' Festival Event /
Join us on beautiful Dharug and Gundungurra country for a weekend of joyful, thought-provoking and thrilling opportunities to connect with the written word. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Blue Mountains, this unique literary festival brings together the country’s greatest minds and most exciting new talent. 1-3 November, 2024.
/ Ticketing /
Admission $95 // Concession $90 // Under 30s $75 // Disability Support Pension $50 // Mob Tix $50
Tickets for this workshop are not included in gold, silver or bronze passes, and need to be purchased separately.
/ Accessibility /
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Head to bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au for more information about the festival, individual events and accessibility.
