Playing with Genre and Form in Non-Fiction

In this workshop, you will consider the ways creative non-fiction can unearth, question and re-imagine what feels urgent, astonishing or curious to you.

Come to this workshop with an idea or topic that you would like to grow or unpack, smash, repair or enumerate. Facilitator Hayley Singer will offer prompts that invite you to explore your topic. Together the group will reflect on what comes up for you when you challenge what is familiar to you, and consider how you might persist with writing, especially when you feel map-less.

Singer's first book, Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead, was published by Upswell in 2023 and was shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize. Hayley has published essays and reviews in The Sydney Review of Books, The Monthly, The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review, Art + Australia. Hayley teaches creative non-fiction at the University of Melbourne.