Writing Your Memoir in Micro Moments

Yamatji writer Mabel Gibson will draw on her micro memoir CryBaby (2025) to share micro memoir writing skills, structure and approaches. The focus will be on how to let a seemingly small moment stand in for a significantly emotional event.

About the presenter:

Mabel Gibson is a Yamatji writer. Her micro memoir has been published in Maar Bidi: Next Generation Black Writers (Magabala Books), in four Night Parrot Press anthologies and in Pulch Mag (Centre for Stories). Her micro memoir collection CryBaby was published by Night Parrot Press in 2025. Mabel has appeared on a number of festival panels and has run micro memoir writing workshops in community centres and at high schools. In 2024 she judged the Short But Deadly First Nations Flash Prize for the Centre for Stories.