Writing Masterclass

Destination Great Barrier Island

Setting Scenes: Time and Place with Paula Morris, University of Auckland

Our focus in this two-hour online class, designed for fiction and nonfiction writers, is the use of setting—time and place—in your writing. Whether you’re working on memoir, fantasy, family stories, an historical novel or contemporary realism, vivid and particular settings will transform your writing.The class will include in-depth analysis of work by Joan Didion, Jhumpa Lahiri, Owen Marshall, Jan Morris, Lisa Taddeo and William Trevor.By Zoom invitation (to be sent week of July 12)If you cannot attend on the day, you will receive a private link to a recording of the masterclass and the Powerpoint with excerpts and notes.This event supports the No Barriers: Small Island, Big Ideas festival, 10–12 September, Aotea Great Barrier Island.

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