#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 180 minutes
Join multi-award winning author and journalist Liam Pieperin this three hour workshop on taking fiction to unsettling, uneasy, and uncomfortable places. Liam explores crafting complex and flawed characters, and balancing the darkness with the light.
#20 Pages in 20 Minutes
Have your manuscript read by an editor, literary agent or publisher. If you have a manuscript ready for a publisher and you want advice on it, you can submit 20 pages of it for review. Selected submissions receive feedback in a face-to-face 20 minute consultation with a publishing professional.
#Artist
Liam Pieper
Liam Pieper is an author and journalist. His first book was a memoir, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year, shortlisted for the National Biography Award and the Ned Kelly Best True Crime award. His second was the Penguin Special Mistakes Were Made, a volume of humorous essays. He was co-recipient of the 2014 M LiteraryAward, winner of the 2015 Geoff Dean Short Story Prize, the inaugural creative resident of the UNESCO City of Literature of Prague, and the 2018 National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellow for Australian Writing. His first novel, The Toymaker, received the 2016 Christina Stead Fiction Award from the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
