Name: Take Me Away: Place Writing That Zings
Start: 2025-09-13T00:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-13T03:00:00+10:00
Location: Launceston Library

We’ve all heard it said of certain fiction that ‘the landscape was like another character’.
Want to practice your place writing?
Take Me Away: Place Writing That Zings with Claire van Ryn
Saturday 13 September, 10am - 1pm
Launceston Library, Room 3
Book your place: https://taswriters.wildapricot.org/event-6226633
How does a writer create this sense of depth and complexity when it comes to place-telling?
In this practical workshop, we will explore ways to write about landscapes, suburbia, homes and buildings that invite the reader to step into place, like that wardrobe door into Narnia. We will consider how, as with an artist painting a landscape, the careful and strategic layering of the medium creates a unique rendering of time and place. Texture, composition, style, themes, scale, context, depth, tones, light and shade are some of the elements we will play with.
This workshop will include plenty of opportunity to begin or continue to develop a piece of writing about a significant place. There will be a mix of readings, exercises and discussion, as well as peer feedback. If time and weather permits, we will also venture outdoors for an immersive writing exercise.
Claire van Ryn hails from Launceston and is an awarded writer, journalist and author whose work explores universal themes of connection, compassion, trauma and healing. Claire has also put her skills to use as magazine editor, communications specialist, writing tutor and manager of her own content creation business.
More info in the link above.
ID: A portrait shot of Claire. She has long fair hair, blue eyes and is wearing a sleeveless denim shirt. The background of trees and botanical printed fabric is blurred.