2025 PROGRAM
Workshop: Writing Your Life Story
DATE:
Saturday 29th March
LOCATION:
Darley Smith Building
COST:
$45
What story could be more significant than the story of your life? Whether it’s for your family, friends, or yourself, this workshop will guide and inspire you to write your life story. This workshop will help motivate you to record and weave your life story regardless of age.
Discover how to make your story both compelling and engaging, how to create the road map that led you to where you are today, and how to bring details to life. Find the focus of your life story, then learn how to translate it into a workable structure for your memories. Outline a plot skeleton in class.
By the end of this workshop, you will understand what and how much you need to write. Through in-class writing and editing exercises, you’ll learn how to transform your memories into stories and determine the best way to start telling your tale. Your story is worth sharing. Explore and share it!
No writing experience is required.
Presenter: Zena Shapter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.