Exploring the Narrative Triangle: Who knows? Who sees? Who tells? with Cameron Hindrum.

This workshop is intended for all writers of fiction (long form or short), at any stage or level of accomplishment. Beginning writers will be provided with some ideas to help with storybuilding or plot development and characterisation, while more experienced writers may gain new insight into the crafting of different points of view within their fictional worlds, while contemplating such concepts as unreliable narration, focalisation and authorial distance.

Developed from the work of narratologist Mieke Bal, the ‘narrative triangle’ allows us to consider the essence of how narrative works: considering who is relating a story to the reader, how or why they are in a position to do so, and all the myriad possibilities inherent in complicating a narrator’s relationship with the story are telling, and its characters.

This will be a practical workshop, taking participants through three exercises that illustrate key concepts, ideas or inspirations; we will engage with the basics of storybuilding through to the principles of narrative structure, with a sprinkling of narrative theory and a list of published examples to unpack and discuss.

Cameron Hindrum lives, writes and works in Launceston. He has published a novel, The Blue Cathedral (Forty South) and several collections of poetry; his second novel manuscript The Sand won the University of Tasmania Prize for best unpublished manuscript at the 2022 Tasmanian Premiers’ Literary Awards and is still desperately seeking a publisher. He has had two plays professionally produced and has written two others, and in 2021 he completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts (Writing) through the University of Wollongong. He served as the Director of the annual Tasmanian Poetry Festival for seventeen years until 2019, and has served on the boards of Tas Writers and the Tamar Valley Writers Festival.

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Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.