Writing workshops for adults and children
The following workshops are available for schools, writers groups, writers centres, libraries and festivals.
Fees are negotiable for varied group sizes and durations.
Choose-your-own adventure stories
Using Duncan's story "Dinomania" as a starting point, participants will learn how to plan and write a choose-your-own adventure story to entertain their friends and family.
Suitable for mid to upper primary aged children.
Haiku - explorations and deceptions
Explore the history and current practice of haiku, senryu and related forms. This workshop is intended to heighten people's perceptions of their natural and social worlds leading to writing that shares the joys, pains and wonders of existence.
Suitable for adults.
Finding stories in local/family history
Using examples of the good, the bad and the longwinded as a starting points, participants will learn how to plan and write a history to entertain readers, whoever they may be.
Suitable for adults.
Characters: know them and show them
For fiction and biographical writing, this workshop helps to develop and clarify characters so that they will live on the page, in all their complexity.
Suitable for adults, especially writers who have a project begun or in mind.