Kuching:
The Writing Your Life Stories Workshop—Kuching that was originally scheduled for 28 April 2012 has been postponed until 23
June. Instead of starting at 8.30am,
it will now begin at 1.30pm. My apologies
for any inconvenience.
For full details and to sign
up please go here.
Kota Kinabalu:
A Facebook Public Event has been set up by Sana.Sini.Situ for the Creative Writing Workshop with
Robert Raymer.
Sunday, June 17, 2012 from 1:00pm until 6:00pm at TBA in
Kota Kinabalu.
It states:
Robert Raymer will be coming back to KK for
another creative writing workshop!
Title: Story Mechanics, Manuscript Formatting and Internal Logic or How to Make Your Stories Believable and Saleable Formatting your stories to the 'international' standard Using dialogue Analysing samples of short stories Would s/he really do that? - story believability Editing samples of writing Registration fee: RM120 per pax (RM100 for students) Light refreshments included About Robert Raymer:- Named as one of the “50 Expats You Should Know” by Expatriate Lifestyle, American Robert Raymer is a freelance editor, writing consultant, and author who has taught creative writing at two Malaysian universities, was the editor of Silverfish New Writings 4, has judged short story competitions, and conducted numerous workshops on writing and creative writing. His short stories and articles have been published over 500 times in The Literary Review, Thema, Aim, London Magazine, Going Places, My Weekly, The Writer and Reader’s Digest. Lovers and Strangers Revisited (MPH 2008), a collection of short stories set in Malaysia, winner of the 2009 Popular-The Star Readers Choice Awards, has been taught in several universities and private colleges and currently being translated into French. Tropical Affairs: Episodes from an Expat's Life in Malaysia (MPH 2009) is a collection of creative nonfiction about living in Malaysia for over twenty years. His latest book is Spirit of Malaysia (Editions Didier Millet). His blog on writing is at borneoexpatwriter.blogspot.com |
To
register please go to this site.
*Here is a link to my first KK workshop 2011, second KK workshop 2011 and third KK workshop 2011. There are also blog links from participants. And my previous workshop in Kuching,
**If you are interested to bring one of my writing
workshops to your organizations or association in Sabah/Sarawak/West
Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei please contact me at robert@borneoexpatwriter.com Thank you.
Here are links to some
of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:
Golda
Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.
Preeta
Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day.
Chuah
Guat Eng, author of Echoes of Silence and Days
of Change.
Plus:
Five part Maugham
and Me series
Beheaded on
Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part
I
