Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia.
The retreat concludes with a short overview of publishing opportunities in narrative nonfiction. You will have the chance to work individually and in small groups, with feedback from award-winning author Rebecca Giggs.
Writers with an interest in any of the following genres are encouraged to attend: memoir / autobiography, biography, essay, nature and place writing, popular science writing, narrative history, narrative politics, profile writing, long-form journalism, reportage, travelogue, philosophical meditations. We look at ways to balance information with emotional journey, how to convey the author’s own stake in their subject, and why voice matters to the reader.
In this week-long retreat - consisting of led-discussion, writing, reading, reflection and instruction - we consider voice not as stream-of-consciousness, but as a carefully crafted process of self construction, characterisation and observation. Voice is the defining quality of narrative nonfiction. Factual writing that nonetheless aspires to tell a story hinges on the author's voice - that is, the illusion that the writer is speaking directly to the reader.
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