ASPIRING writers have a chance to join masterclasses with leading Australian authors, including Michael Pryor and Alice Pung.
Proceeds from 100 Story Building’s ‘100 Story Studio’ classes will help provide creative writing programs to more than 1000 marginalised and disadvantaged children in Melbourne’s west this year.
Program director Lachlann Carter says 100 Story Studio is Melbourne’s only series dedicated to children’s and young adult writing.
Pryor will deliver a workshop on fantasy world creation, while Pung will help participants explore the art of the memoir.
Pryor said that working with young writers was sometimes unpredictable, constantly exhilarating and always inspirational. “It’s a privilege to share some of the things I’ve learned in 20 years of writing, and the brilliance and energy of young writers makes me examine my own practice.”
All profits will go to help 100 Story Building run its program for budding young writers, due to begin in Footscray next month.
The trailblazing centre is the first of its kind in Melbourne and will deliver free creative writing excursions, publishing projects and after-school programs to more than 1000 children and young people from diverse and marginalised communities in the first year.
Further masterclass details: 100storybuilding.org.au
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