Reading with a Writer's Eye
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A craft-focused book club for writers who want to understand how and why award-winning contemporary novels work. Open to members of Hunter Writers’ Centre.
July's Book: 'Theory and Practice' by Michelle de Kretser
Winner of Stella Prize – 2025
It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed’ relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray.
Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain.
Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia’s most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.
Free event. Registrations essential.
This is event is for members of Hunter Writer’s Centre. Not a member? Become one today.
July's Book: 'Theory and Practice' by Michelle de Kretser
Winner of Stella Prize – 2025
It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed’ relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray.
Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain.
Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia’s most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.
Free event. Registrations essential.
This is event is for members of Hunter Writer’s Centre. Not a member? Become one today.
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Where is it happening?
Joy Cummings Centre, 61-63 Scott St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia, Newcastle
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Host or PublisherHunter Writers' Centre
