From 10am-12pm on Sunday 8 January 2017, emerging W.A. author A. R. Levett will deliver his Charting the Hero's Journey workshop at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre for the special price of $5-$12 per head. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn this important writing tool. Details below. CHARTING THE HERO'S JOURNEY Suitable for: Beginner to intermediate writers, age 16+ When: Sunday 8 Jan, 10am-12pm Where: Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, 11 Old York Road, Greenmount WA Cost: $5 KSP members/$12 others. Pay cash on the day Renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell declared that all good stories contain the same basic stages, which gives them power. He calls this the Hero's Journey. In this workshop, special guest author A. R. Levett will outline the twelve stages of the Hero’s Journey; demonstrate how the Journey is used in popular stories; and help participants apply the Hero’s Journey to their existing story. Participants will need to bring along an existing story or story idea. Handouts are provided. Morning tea provided |
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On 19 November 2006, A. R. Levett was presented with a Commended Award in the Glen Phillips Poetry Prize for his poem 'Paternal Lessons'. From Peter Jeffrey's judge's report: "PATERNAL LESSONS by A.R LEVETT shows how negatively the older macho culture accepts a pattern of life that is inherently sterile if not outright abusive in the advice it wants to relay to the coming generations. It moves through a recognisable pattern of quatrains which reflect chauvinism, wage slavery and greed, one eyed factionalism, alcoholism and hospitalisation and parental neglect of the recognition of childhood achievements, to a final three liner betrayal with perhaps incestual ambiguity of shocking intensity. Full marks for the control of graduated revelation that generates a superb climax." Here is the poem: PATERNAL LESSONS Lessons from my father: women are nice to look at and touch, the only worthwhile ones are those who bare their bodies in trashy magazines; swelter in a factory where your talents atrophy seize every cent as if everyone owes you; football is life, barrack for the Eagles, abuse the television when your team is losing; scull so much you pass out mid-conversation, your committed hospital stay an honour badge; leave your reserved seat empty at your expectant child’s award-earning ceremonies to escape on sudden vacation. The hardest lesson of all one drunken night I prefer your sister.
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