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From Memoir to Historical Fiction: How real people can prompt stories
The Edge Auditorium, slq
Word Play / Older Grades
1020
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Duration: 60 minutes
In this session, Nova Weetman will share how she has used real people and events when writing books for young adults and middle-grade readers. Focusing on her YA book Everything Is Changed, which is based on a real event, and two historical middle-grade novels, Outlaw Girls and Elsewhere Girls, Nova will talk about the research involved in using real figures from history and how important it is to get it right. Nova will also touch on the ethics involved in writing about your own life in memoir. Aimed at students in lower–middle secondary.
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Nova Weetman
Nova Weetman is a widely published writer of fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. She has published seventeen novels for children about friendship, class, identity and belonging, and her books have been shortlisted for many awards and published internationally. Her recent essays on aspects of grief and loss have been published in The Guardian and The Age, leading to her appearing on Radio National’s Conversations. Nova has also published short fiction in Island, Mslexia, Kill Your Darlings and Overland, and worked as a screenwriter for television and film.
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