Lifestories with Patti Miller


Upcoming Workshops

    Workshops for 2008 are being offered at various locations in Australia as well as

    Paris and Fiji. Please note, the titles of workshops sometimes vary according to the organization arranging the course. The topic identifies the actual workshop as described in Workshops. Prices also vary according to the arranging organization. More Workshops will be added later in the year. If you would like a workshop in your area, please contact your local writers centres, listed on the Writing Links page. If you wish to organise one yourself, please email for an Organisers Information leaflet.

     
    AUSTRALIA

    Title:

    Topic: Year Of The Memoir

    Date/Time:  Sats 23rd Feb, 19th April, 28th June, 30th Au, 29th Nov, 10am – 4pm

    Length:  5 days over a year

    Presented By: Queensland Writers’ Centre

    Location: Brisbane

    Bookings and Info: www.qwc.asn.au

     

    Topic: Life Writing

    Date/Time;   March and May (precise dates not fixed as yet)

    Length:  2 days, part of 5 day series

    Presented By: Northern Territory Writers’ Centre

    Location: Alice Springs and Darwin

    Bookings and Info: www.ntwriters.com.au

     

    Title: An Introduction to Life Writing

    Topic: Life Writing

    Date/Time:  12th June  - 31st July 10 am – 1pm

    Length:  8 weeks

    Presented By: NSW  Writers Centre

    Location: Rozelle, Sydney

    Bookings and Info: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au


    Title: Life Writing Masterclass

    Topic: Advanced life writing

    Date/Time:  Thurs 7th Aug – 11th Sept 10.00 am – 1.00 pm

    Length: 6 weeks

    Presented By: Continuing Education, University of Sydney

    Location: Newtown, Sydney

    Bookings & Info: www.cce.usyd.edu.au 

     

    Title:  Life Writing

    Topic: Life Writing

    Date/Time: 1st Aug – 5th Sept, 10 am – 1pm

    Length:  6 weeks

    Presented By: Varuna, The Writers House

    Location:  141 Cascade St, Katoomba

    Bookings and Info: www.varuna.com.au

     

    Title: Life Writing and Publishing

    Topic: Life Writing and Publishing

    Date/Time:  13th/14th Sept, 10 am – 4pm

    Length:  2 days

    Presented By: Boolarong Press

    Location:  Byron Bay

    Bookings and Info: publish@boolarongpress.com.au

     

    Title:  Life Stories

    Topic: Life Writing

    Date/Time: 14th Nov, 10 am – 4pm

    Length:  1 Day

    Presented By: Ryde Library Services

    Location: Brush Farm House, Lawson St, Eastwood

    Bookings and Info: GWyllie@ryde.nsw.gov.au

      
    Title: Memories and Memoir (+ panel)

    Topic: Life Writing

    Date/Time:  Panel Fri 5th Dec, 6.30-8.00pm; Workshop 6th-7th Dec, 10 am-4 pm

    Length:  2 days

    Presented By: Victorian Writers’ Centre

    Location: Melbourne

    Bookings and Info: www.writers-centre.org

     

    OVERSEAS 

    Title: Memoir  - finding the story

    Topic: Memoir – emphasis on narrative

    Date/Time:  June 1st – 8th, 10 am -1pm

    Length:   6 x ˝ days

    Presented By: Daku Resort

    Location: Fiji

    Bookings and Info: www.dakuresort.com/special_interest

      

    Title: Writing In Paris – A Memoir Sojourn

    Topic:  Memoir and Follow-up Life Writing

    Date/Time: 23rd  Oct – 8th  Nov (inclusive of flights)

    Length:  18 days

    Presented By: Continuing Education, University of Sydney

    Location: Paris:

    Further Info: Paris Workshop Information document
    (opens in 2nd Window)

     Bookings: cceinfo@usyd.edu.au

     

     

     

 

 

People
by Yevgeny Yevteshenko


No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.
Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.
And if a man lived in obscurity
making his friends in that obscurity
Obscurity is not uninteresting.
To each his world is private,
and in that world one excellent minute.
And in that world one tragic minute.
These are private.
In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight.
It goes with him.
They are left books and bridges
and painted canvas and machinery.
Whose fate is to survive.

But what has gone is also not nothing:
By the rule of the game something is gone.
Not people die but worlds die in them.
Whom we knew as faulty, the earth's creatures.
Of whom, essentially, what did we know?
Brother of a brother? Friend of friends?
Lover of lover?
We who knew our fathers
in everything, in nothing.
They perish. they cannot be brought back.
The secret worlds are not regenerated.
And every time again and again
I make my lament against destruction. 
 

 

 

Life Stories Workshop
PO Box 603 Potts Point NSW 2011 |  Phone 02 9332 2787  |
 Email: pmiller@lifestories.com.au.
ABN 17 929 410 340