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HomeWelcome To The National Centre of BiographyNCB Upcoming EventsWriting Lives With Bernadette Brennan
Writing Lives with Bernadette Brennan
Writing Lives with Bernadette Brennan

A Canberra Writers Festival event sponsored by the National Centre of Biography.

For a biography to sing it needs to be written with energy and passion. The biographer, driven by curiosity and the desire to understand what makes their subject tick, or in Helen Vendler’s words, ‘the inner dynamic of the life’, must be open to all sorts of discoveries and challenges. So how do you write such a story? Who do you write about, and why? What practical, ethical and personal complications arise? In this masterclass, the award-winning biographer Bernadette Brennan shares her insights and experience into the often fraught, always fascinating, art of biography.

Participant requirements: it is not essential to have begun a project, but writers with a work in progress are invited to bring their work with them. Don’t forget to bring your questions, along with a notebook and pen. 

More details and registration here.

Date & time

  • Sat 26 Oct 2024, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location

Marie Reay Teaching Centre, ANU

Speakers

  • Bernadette Brennan

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  •  Dr Michelle Staff
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