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Workshop: Historical Fiction & Archival Research
White Gloves Room, State Library of Queensland
Workshop
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#About the event
Duration: 180 minutes
Discover how you can immerse yourself in the historical worlds and mindsets of your characters in this engrossing workshop for writers of historical fiction. Ann Weisgarber is the award winning author of three historical novels and an avid user of archival materials. Presented in partnership with the Queensland Writers Centre.
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Ann Weisgarber
Ann Weisgarber is the author of three novels: THE GLOVEMAKER, THE PROMISE, and THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE. She won the Stephen Turner Award for First Fiction and the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction. She was a finalist for Scotland’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Orange Award for New Writers in the United Kingdom. The film rights for THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE are optioned by actress Viola Davis.
Ann earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Wright State University in Ohio, and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Houston in Texas. Ann was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2014 and lives in Galveston, Texas.
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