Creation Story
with Mark Haddon
The Australian Writers Mentoring Program hosts free online conversations with acclaimed writers, focusing on the problems they encountered writing their first books, and how they solved them.
These sessions focus on craft skills, creative problems and creative self-management. If you’re interested in creativity (or reading!) these short conversations are inspirational. And there’s a giveaway for one ticket holder at each event.
If you miss the live session, you can access the recording after the event.
Upcoming Event:
Join us for a free conversation on craft and creativity with Mark Haddon, author of the multi-million selling international phenomenon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
Mark will talk about his new book Leaving Home - a portrait of creativity. We'll talk about how a difficult set of circumstances led to him finding a new way to write, and how that created the form for this book. We'll touch on how Curious came about and the importance of abandoned drafts. Mark's clarity and generosity as a writer is echoed in his teaching - and this conversation will change your approach to writing, and reading.
January 20th, 8pm - 8.30pm
Mark Haddon is the author of novels for adults and children, including The Porpoise, The Red House and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. His forthcoming work, a memoir, is Leaving Home.
"Simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.
Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier mâché and mental breakdown and great white sharks. It's about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life.
As bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.”