Writing
Helena Pastor
Writing mentorships
A QUICK BYTES VIDEO FROM A 2023 ARTIST IN THE HOUSE STUDIO CO!LAB TALK
Helena Pastor shares her experiences of creative writing mentorships—what are they, how do they work, and where to find them?
This talk was moderated by Andrew Glassop in front of a live online audience on 1 March 2023
Older talks
Collaborative storytelling
Three stories from Silver City Aboriginal Reserve, Anaiwan Country is about Helena Pastor and Kerry Archibald Moran's (Aunty Jeeno) collaborative storytelling project of the same name, and their efforts to be published in Australian and international literary journals. This project has been built on the relationship they’ve developed through yarning, creative engagement, mutual respect and encouragement. Helena and Kerry were recipients of the $2,000 Studio Co!Lab Members’ Grant in late 2021. They’re talking with Orana Arts’ Andrew Glassop.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Lounge Series Roundtable event in 2022, where you’ll find artists in conversation.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 24 November 2021
Roanna Gonsalves
Being an ethical writer
This Studio Co!Lab Talk is with our inScribe program mentor, writer, and academic, Roanna Gonsalves. Roanna talks about the how and when, and sometimes the why not, of writing outside your experience.
How can a writer understand and truly represent a character from a group, class, or culture of which they are not a member? As intersectionality and representation become increasingly important in modern life there is a need for writers and creators to be knowingly ethical in how they produce their art. She's talking with Andrew Glassop of Orana Arts. There were some technical issues with the Zoom connection, so the video conversation may be a little disjointed in places.
Telling regional stories: is the published word still enough?
Three regionally-based storytellers, who recently received Arts Restart funding, discuss the topic of whether the published word is still enough when telling regional stories. Val Clark, Anne Keen, and Allison Reynolds share their storytelling experiences, and how they’ve taken stories beyond the printed page.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Lounge Series Roundtable event, where you’ll find artists in conversation.
LINKS
Laura’s other websites
About #GoKindly
Fierce Lady (activism/feminism)
Twitter accounts to follow
Maxine Beneba Clarke – author
Jess Hill – on coercive control
Generalist books
How to Think Like an Activist by Wendy Syfret
Copywrong to Copywriter by Tait Ischia
Truth Bomb by Abigail Crompton
Fundamentalist stories
Educated by Tara Westover
When I spoke in tongues by Jessica Wilbanks
Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs
In The Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Movies
Unorthodox
Laura Conti (McConnell)
Writing and publishing on controversial topics and communities
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 7 July 2021. Laura Conti (McConnell) is a writer and ex-fundamentalist Christian who has been driven to bring about change through activism. In this talk, she shares her experiences of writing and publishing on controversial topics and communities.
An advocate for women, Laura is passionate about Indigenous land rights and founder of #GoKindly, which dedicates profits to drive social change and supporting, fundamentally rural, women & children. My Kitchen Table is a space where people can talk, problem solve and laugh in a safe, non-judgemental space.
inScribe writers @ the CORRIDOR project
The five writers who are part of our inScribe writing residency and mentoring program with writer/ mentor, Roanna Gonsalves, spent four days at the picturesque the CORRIDOR project, near Cowra in June. Sam Leah (Gelston Park), Helena Pastor (Armidale), Robert Salt (Dubbo), Catherine Moffatt (Lake Munmorah), and Val Clark (Dubbo) got to meet each other and Roanna, to learn more about each other's writing, get timely feedback, and discuss ideas.
The group is developing short prose fiction or non-fiction pieces under the theme of Centres & Peripheries, scheduled for publication at the end of the program.
LINKS
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Beginnings, Middles and Ends, Nancy Kress
Pity the Reader, Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell
Paris Review online - archive of interviews with writers
The Writers Room, Charlotte Wood
Daily Rituals, Mason Currey
A Mind of One's Own, Alison Manning (Dubbo area)
Scrivener - writing application
Write Now with Scrivener podcast
Yoga, my dog, my family - Kate Wild
AUDIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
Pro Writing Aid (connected to Scrivener) - for editing
Tête-à-Tête: The Tumultuous Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Rowley
Kate Wild
Overcoming the things that stop you writing
This was a Studio Co!Lab Talk presented on Zoom, 5 May 2021. Three Studio Co!Lab members spent time talking with Kate in a small-group breakout session following the talk.
Kate Wild is an investigative journalist and author, who’s worked for the ABC's Investigative Team as a reporter, on Four Corners and The Chasers' War on Everything as a researcher and producer; for Insight on SBS as a producer/reporter and as a field producer and researcher on over 20 individual documentaries. Her first book, published in 2018, Waiting for Elijah, examines the fatal police shooting of a young mentally ill man in NSW and the issue of police contact with the mentally ill. Kate was raised near Warren in Central NSW, and now lives in Sydney.
Tabitha Hobbins, May 2021: The suggestions that Kate made to me are so utterly useful. I had been dragging my feet on a manuscript edit for weeks, but now I have some new tools to apply to my writing and editing that will not only propel my edit forward but also enrich my writing enormously! How amazing to get this for the very lovely price of FREE! Thank you so much Kate Wild and Orana Arts!