Join Miles Franklin longlisted author Briohny Doyle to explore literary speculation and strengthen your writing across fiction, non-fiction and hybrid forms.

Rather than simply designating a genre, the speculative can be understood as an operation of literary imagination. In this session comprised of short reading and writing exercises, we will cultivate speculative reading and writing practices across fiction, non-fiction and hybrid forms. This might mean attending to the temporally unstable, spectral, uncanny, or, through conjunctive movements such as 'what if?' 'then what?' 'and also', using literary imagination to attend to contemporary life and its multiple horizons.

Participants will:

• Consider various texts that use speculation to develop their story
• Think critically about what constitutes the speculative in literature, both in fiction and non-fiction
• Consider what kinds of literary speculation they are already practicing
• Use creative techniques to develop speculative thinking.

Suitable for writers of non-fiction, fiction and hybrid forms ready to deepen their practice.

—Online events are easy to access! You will need an internet connection and (ideally) a device with a camera – computers/laptops or even phones can be used to dial in. You will be sent a link to join a few days before the event. The link will take you to a private digital meeting where you can join the session. You can test the link at any time to ensure you can log in. Please respect the other participants in your event and mute your microphone at all times while the presenter is presenting. Background noise in houses such as TVs, pets and children can affect the sound quality.

About Briohny Doyle

Briohny Doyle's books include Adult Fantasy (Scribe 2017) and The Island Will Sink (Brow Books 2016) Briohny’s criticism, short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Sunday Times, The Monthly, The Age, Overland, Going Down Swinging, and Meanjin. She has performed her work at the Sydney Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Briohny was a 2017 Endeavour post doctoral fellow at Yale University and the University of California Santa Cruz. She is a 2020 Fulbright Scholar. She is a lecturer in Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University.

Members $88 / Non-members $140

This workshop will be delivered via Zoom. Instructions will be emailed to you, please check your spam/junk folders.

—Writers SA members must be logged in to receive the member discount. If you are a member of another state based writers centre, please contact [email protected] at least five working days before the event to get a code for the member price. Our staff don’t work full time and we don’t want you to miss out!