SENSE, MEMORY AND MEMOIR with Kris Kneen // Sunday 3 November // 9:30am - 12:30pm // Venue: Blue Mountains Cultural Centre; Seminar Room // Part of the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers' FestivalWhether you are writing about your first sexual experience or writing about brushing your teeth, discover how to elevate your work from the mundane into an immersive, sensual, whole-body experience.
In this workshop, award-winning memoirist Kris Kneen teaches you how to employ your sense memory in any given moment to make the most out of what you’ve seen, heard, smelt, felt and tasted.
Through a series of exercises, activities, discussions and readings, this workshop will equip you with tools to help you remember and describe your world in a more sensual light, bringing your memoir to life for your readers.
Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir— Affection and The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen —and fiction: An Uncertain Grace , Steeplechase , Triptych , The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine , Wintering , as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother .
/ A Blue Mountains Writers' Festival Event /
Join us on beautiful Dharug and Gundungurra country for a weekend of joyful, thought-provoking and thrilling opportunities to connect with the written word. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Blue Mountains, this unique literary festival brings together the country’s greatest minds and most exciting new talent. 1-3 November, 2024.
/ Ticketing /
Admission $95 // Concession $90 // Under 30s $75 // Disability Support Pension $50 // Mob Tix $50
Tickets for this event are not included in gold, silver or bronze passes, and need to be purchased separately.
/ Accessibility /
This venue is wheelchair accessible
Head to bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au for more information about the festival, individual events and accessibility .
Event Venue
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 30-32 Parke St, Katoomba NSW 2780, Australia,Leura, New South Wales, Katoomba
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