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Life Stories Workshop

Locality: Potts Point, New South Wales

Phone: +61 404 506 423

Address: PO Box 603 2011 Potts Point, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.lifestories.com.au

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25.01.2022 Memoir and non- fiction writers - get ready for 2021 - put your name down for this course. Hopefully live but otherwise on zoom. 4 months of guided writing.

25.01.2022 Fiction writers, woth checking out this competition - I guess it's advertising for Moleskine notebooks, but a good prize for short fiction - a worthy enough product... https://vocal.media/challenges/little-black-book Subscriptions - New Users - Prospecting - Purchases - 1.13.21 - $4.99&utm_term=US+UK+CA+AU_18+_5LAL_PayingSubsChallengeSubmittersValueBased_Challenges_LittleBlackBook_1.20.21&utm_content=Static_DynamicLittleBlackBook&fbclid=IwAR0I44hfAdsOkAZhqaN-8-wEyzJbvvSHqsWtxiyYKPYMmz-0PrHXp2gbP3c

24.01.2022 Writers' Festivals are happening again!! Here's a lovely country one - Writers at the Woolshed - come and have an autumn weekend in the country in March! https://earthcanvas.com.au/writers-at-the-woolshed-in-nov/

24.01.2022 What to do when you can't travel? Well, you can practise your travel writing for a start! This 2 hour Travel Memoir course will give you what you need to get started or to brush up your skills. Whether you have been to the Snowy Mts or Mont Blanc, Perth or Paris, this course will let you re-experience your delights and difficulties https://www.betterreadevents.com//patti-miller-workshop-in

23.01.2022 Writers - this residency might be perfect for you: https://www.westwords.com.au//female-orphan-school-write/

22.01.2022 Older writers - here is a great opportunity for publication in the magazine 'Creative Non-Fiction' - a call for submissions from writers who are 60+ (feel free to share in your own groups). https://www.creativenonfiction.org//new-nonfiction-older-w

21.01.2022 A question I borrowed: If you were spirited away to the location of the book you are currently reading, where and when would you be? Me - I'd be on Wiradjuri land in present time. (not far from home at all).

21.01.2022 For your Diary, 3rd December - I will be 'In Conversation' with sister-writers Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell who have written a book together about their great-great-great-great grandmother, Charlotte, who wrote the first published children's book in Australia: https://www.betterreadevents.com//kate-forsyth-belinda-mur

20.01.2022 I've just updated the page where I 'show-off' all the students whose books have been commercially published, or just about to be - fifty-five books so far. And more coming out this year. The next two to be released are Kirsty Everett's 'Honey Blood' and Christine Sykes' 'Gough and Me'. https://lifestories.com.au/clients-books/

20.01.2022 Et au revoir Juliette Greco. https://www.francetvinfo.fr//chanson-francaise-juliette-gr

19.01.2022 Another short story writing comp calling for entrants: http://www.cwl.nsw.gov.au/

17.01.2022 Writing retreats in Byron Bay, perfection : https://byronwritersfestival.com//restart-residential-re/

17.01.2022 A wonderful new non-fiction writing prize from Island magazine:https://islandmag.com/nonfictionprize

12.01.2022 Writing competitions - here are a few sites that list writing comps - fiction and non-fiction: FAW https://fawnsw.org.au/writing-competitions/ The Writers’ Studio... https://www.writerstudio.com.au//short-story-and-other-wr/ Aust Writers’ Centre https://www.writerscentre.com.au//short-story-competition/

12.01.2022 Memoir writing workshop at Faber in 2021, the 4 month course - hopefully the first live class since March this year. I know people say, 'fills quickly', but all my workshops for this year are already full, so do put your name down if you are keen for Feb 2021. Just expressions of interest at the moment - you will be told in November if it is live or zoom and you can decide then. Feel free to share if you know others who are serious about their memoir writing. http://faberwritingacademy.com.au/Writing-True-Stories-2021

12.01.2022 A new travel-writing workshop, a two hour zoom course with Better Read Than Dead, 26th Sept - you can enrol now! : https://www.betterreadevents.com//patti-miller-workshop-in

10.01.2022 Because I wasn't able to do the Paris Memoir workshop this year - no explanations necessary - I have been looking nostalgically through the photos. Here is the Paris group from the first year 2005 - when Vicky Cole and I ran around like mad things trying to hold it all together. (I am the young thing in the purple skirt...) , I will try to find a picture from each year.

10.01.2022 Want to write memoir or true stories of any kind ? Here's a taster course - just 3 x 2hr online to get you started. If you like it, you can enrol in the four month Faber course: https://faberwritingacademy.com.au//start-to-write-nonfi/

09.01.2022 For writers who want to do a writing degree - a substantial scholarship: https://www.uts.edu.au//uts-2020-new-writers-40k-fellowshi

09.01.2022 Writers on the borderlands between fiction and non-fiction- this will be good.

09.01.2022 Books! All arrived in the post today: The Ways of The Bushwalker, by Melissa Harper, a history of bushwalking in Aust - I wrote a back cover quote for it. A Sense of Paris, by Marcelle Holliday, a visit to Paris - Marcelle did the Varuna class recently. China Blonde by Nicole Webb - a memoir about her years living and working in China - Nicole did an AWC class with me. The Gifts of Reading, collected by Jennie Orchard , a collection of essays by a range of fabulous authors including a fave of mine, Robert MacFarlane - this one just an unexpected prezzie - thank you!

07.01.2022 For writers and readers: 'In Conversation' with Betty O'Neill last night about her wonderful memoir/biography/history, 'The Other Side of Absence'. I feel a kind of mid-wifely pride - I didn't do any of the hard work, but I was there when it was born.

07.01.2022 An interview by Andrea Barton on life writing: https://brightsidestorystudio.com//patti-miller-on-the-ar/ A

06.01.2022 Intro to Life Story/memoir writing - my first live, in-person course with The Aust Writers Centre in a year- for anyone wanting to get started. The June online course is already booked out, so if you want to do a course in the real world starting in March, bookings opened today: https://www.writerscentre.com.au/store/courses/life-writing/

05.01.2022 A superb personal essay from John Birmingham - I'm sharing this because it's just such a great piece of writing - an inspiration for anyone who wants to bring together the personal and the political ( or any kind of idea). So many good phrases and lines - my personal favourite: 'if there is subtext to this year of lethal wonders, it cautions against narrative complacency.' https://www.theguardian.com//burning-bush-melting-arctic-a

05.01.2022 Memoir or creative non-fiction writers, if you really want to get that book written, the four month Faber Academy course is ready for you. It's already filling fast, starting Feb 2021. And it's live, in a real, socially distanced classroom - you can escape zoom at last! https://faberwritingacademy.com.au//writing-true-stories-/

05.01.2022 And yet another former AWC writing student with her book out in the world. Congratulations Nicole Webb for China Blonde !

04.01.2022 Write what matters to you, not what you think you ought; a wonderful essay from Lee Kofman: http://leekofman.com.au/the-writing-li/urgency-in-writing/

03.01.2022 A new word: sehnsucht (German) - a yearning or wistful longing for the unknown and the mysterious. From Robert MacFarlane's chapter in 'The Gifts of Reading'. I suspect sehnsucht has shaped my life.

03.01.2022 Memoir/non-fiction writers - the Varuna Masterclass will be live (at last you can escape zoom!) in November ( all going well, of course), and applications close 31st Aug: https://www.varuna.com.au/residential-masterclass-with-patt

03.01.2022 Memoir and non-fiction writers - a new introductory course from me at Faber - online this November - just three classes to dip your toes in and see if it suits you: http://faberwritingacademy.com.au/start_to_write_Nonfiction

03.01.2022 Congratulations to former memoir student Kirsty Everett - 'Honey Blood' is coming out next week. Kirsty first did a class with me in 1998 when she was just 17 yrs old and then did a couple more over the years - sometimes it take a while, sometimes you are busy just trying to stay alive. This is a wonderful book - read it and be awestruck by her courage and joie de vivre.

03.01.2022 This will be useful if you are at the editing stage of your story.

02.01.2022 Narrative non-fiction writers - a new award just for you, the Spark prize from Hardie Grant - time to start thinking about your book proposal: https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/books/spark-prize-2020

02.01.2022 Writers - if you want some input from one of the best - this will be good!

02.01.2022 I'll be talking with Betty O'Neil about her wonderful first book, The Other Side of Absence, Thurs next week. Hope you can join us online.

02.01.2022 If you feel like some inspiration on a Thursday evening, join me in this Conversation with Betty O'Neil about her new book, The Other Side of Absence at 6.30 today - you will need to register before this evening and Better Read will send you the zoom link: https://www.betterreadevents.com//betty-oneill-the-other-s