So You Want to ... Write Disorder

So You Want to Write Disorder

with KSP Emerging Writer-in-Residence Josephine Taylor

Costs:  $35 members, $50 non-members. Online booking fees also apply. To avoid paying fees, please phone KSP directly to book and pay by debit/ credit card: 9294 1872.

This workshop is brought to you by the KSP Writers' Centre with support from the Shire of Mundaring. Tea and coffee provided.

From Growing Up Disabled in Australia, edited by Carly Findlay, to Sofie Laguna’s Infinite Splendours, recent years have seen an upsurge in books dealing with disability and trauma. This workshop offers information, techniques and hands-on exercises to writers of fiction and creative non-fiction, providing a safe space to write disability or trauma as part of a beginning or established project.

The subject matter will suit writers of all experience, though delivery will not be therapeutic in intent.

Target Audience: Suitable for adult writers of fiction and creative non-fiction, including life writing, who are writing or wish to write about disability, including chronic pain, chronic illness and/or past trauma.

About the Facilitator

Josephine Taylor is an Associate Editor at Westerly Magazine and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Writing at Edith Cowan University. After developing chronic gynaecological pain in 2000, she was forced to surrender her career as a psychotherapist. Years later, research into the condition informed her prize-winning PhD thesis, an investigative memoir. Now, Josephine teaches in literary fiction and creative non-fiction, and presents on her writing, chronic disorder and creativity. Her critical and creative writing has been anthologised and published widely, including in Australian Book Review, Axon, Southerly and TEXT. Eye of a Rook (Fremantle Press, 2021) is her first novel.

PHOTO CREDIT: Charlotte Guest.

COVID-19 Advice

It is mandatory for businesses and venues to maintain a contact register by collecting contact details of patrons attending their premises, including customers, staff, contractors and visitors. By attending this event, you are required to sign-in using the SafeWA app as you enter the venue, or record your contact details at the event entrance. Hand sanitisers are provided and the event complies with capacity restrictions in accordance with a Covid Safety Plan.

We ask for your co-operation in preventing the spread of COVID-19 by complying with our following conditions of entry. Please do not attend KSP's premises if:

• you are feeling unwell
• you have been overseas in the last 14 days
• you have been tested for COVID-19 within the last 14 days
• you have COVID-19 or have been in close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19.

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

There is a bus stop directly outside the Centre on Old York Road. The Centre is located on a residential street and looks like any other house: look for the 'Katharine’s Place' wooden plaque sign and bright green letterbox out front. Parking is available in the brick driveway and in front of the hedge, also on the upper gravel level (to the right of the house) and along the street. Overflow parking can be found down the gravel driveway to the immediate left of the house (look for the No Thoroughfare sign); please drive down here slowly.

What should I bring to the event?

Writing tools i.e. pen and paper, or a laptop if desired.

Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?

Phone the KSP Writers' Centre office 08 9294 1872 or email [email protected] 

Is my registration/ticket transferrable?

Sorry, tickets cannot be transferred. 

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

No. Check your name off at the door.

What is the cancellation and refund policy?

Please visit the KSP Writers' Centre website to view the Cancellation Policy: http://www.kspwriterscentre.com/workshops  

Host or Publisher KSP Writers' Centre