Once you’ve trawled through the archives and assembled your notes, how do you start writing a historical story? This workshop explores questions such as why write this particular historical story now, who are you writing for, your relationship to the story, using fiction and nonfiction techniques, and accommodating other perspectives and diverse voices. Participants will be encouraged to develop their own approach to a historical project through reading extracts from historical writing and experimenting with writing techniques. 

This workshop is five hours, with a one hour lunch break. Please bring lunch with you, as well as something to write on and with.

–Eleanor Hogan is a literary nonfiction writer whose books, Into the Loneliness: the unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates and NewSouth’s city series’ Alice Springs, focus on central Australia. Into the Loneliness was shortlisted for the University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award and is currently shortlisted for the 2022 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards (non-fiction category). She was winner of the Peter Blazey Fellowship 2017 and the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2019 for biographical writing.