{"id":33175,"date":"2016-09-16T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33175"},"modified":"2016-09-14T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T10:48:42","slug":"the-inaugural-national-writers-forum-happening-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/the-inaugural-national-writers-forum-happening-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inaugural National Writers Forum — Happening Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Well, officially it’s happening tomorrow, but author and NZ Society of Authors President-of-Honour,\u00a0 Joan Rosier-Jones<\/a>, will be delivering the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture<\/a> at 5 pm this<\/p>\n

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evening, so that feels like the beginning of what will be an all-weekend event to me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Forum proper<\/a> kicks-off tomorrow morning at 9 am with a keynote address from UK novelist and journalist, Chris Cleave<\/a>, followed by a weekend of what promises to be stimulating, informative, and even challenging panels, masterclasses, and workshops.<\/p>\n

I’ll be delivering my masterclass at 9 am on Sunday morning and as those who are “…on Anything, Really”<\/em> regulars will know, it’s on the topic of:<\/p>\n

\"thornspell_bfw_snip\"<\/a>“Building Fantastic Worlds:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Establishing ambiance and milieu is part of all fiction, but the art of creating worlds that are other to what we know is integral to Fantasy literature \u2014 and mastering it is essential to the \u201ccraft\u201d of those writing in this genre. In this session, award-winning fantasy author, Helen Lowe, will examine the building blocks for \u201cfantastic\u201d world-building, including how to \u201cmake it real\u201d for readers. If you\u2019re keen to explore the territory of JK Rowling and George RR Martin, Neil Gaiman and Ursula Le Guin, this is the session for you. At least one hands-on exercise will be included, with more depending on time and numbers.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I am looking forward to it — and to the whole weekend in fact, and shall report back here as time allows, but definitely on Monday if not before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, officially it’s happening tomorrow, but author and NZ Society of Authors President-of-Honour,\u00a0 Joan Rosier-Jones, will be delivering the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture at 5 pm this evening, so that feels like the beginning of what will be an all-weekend event to me. \ud83d\ude42 The Forum proper kicks-off tomorrow morning at 9 am with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33184,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33175\/revisions\/33184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}