Who is Speaking? Writing workshop with Nadine Davidoff

Workshop Two: Who is Speaking?

Deciding your narrative point-of-view—who is telling this story and what is the vantage point—is an essential building block of all writing.

In this three-hour workshop, editor and writing teacher Nadine Davidoff will examine the benefits and shortfalls of various point-of-view options.

• What are the benefits of a first-person narrative? Equally, what are the constraints and potential pitfalls of this voice?
• When is a third-person voice most effective; and what are the traps to look out for here?
• When can second-person be an effective narrative voice?

We will also look at narrative vantage point and ask: From where is the story being told?

And how does the narrator’s vantage point affect the emotional tone and direction of the narrative?

Finally, we will flip point of view to that of the reader and ask: who is listening?

Is the reader being treated as an insider or an outsider to the world being portrayed? And how does this influence the writing?

Date: Saturday 21 March
Time: 1pm-4pm (ACST)
Location: Online via Zoom

$100 NT Writers' Centre Members, $135 Non-Members

About Nadine Davidoff

Nadine Davidoff has worked as a Senior Editor at Random House Australia and as a Commissioning Editor at Black Inc. She was also fiction editor for The Monthly magazine before starting her own freelance editing business in 2006. Her areas of interest include literary and popular fiction, general non-fiction, biography/memoir, travel narrative and health.

Nadine is an honorary fellow at the Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers at Melbourne University’s School of Graduate Research, a member of the NSW Writers’ Centre, the Victorian Writers’ Centre, and a member of the Society of Editors. She lives in Melbourne.

www.nadinedavidoff.com.au