The Art of Reading (to Improve Your Writing)

Sarah will help you identify craft in the writing of others by, first, giving examples and talking you through her own interpretation and reading practice. Then, she will provide you with tools for close textual analysis and help you to utilise them to understand how an author achieves certain effects through their use of voice, perspective, detail, setting, metaphor, structure and other elements of creative writing craft.

Sarah Giles is a writer, PhD candidate, and a sessional academic teaching to creative writing courses. Her short stories have been published in TEXT Journal, ACE IV, The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, ACE III and The Incompleteness Book, among others. Sarah works as the Marketing and Memberships Officer for Writers Victoria and is on the Executive Committee of Management of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP).