How can fiction approach grief?

In this workshop we’ll explore various ways fiction can dramatise moments of extreme personal loss. How can we give this universal experience a feeling of newness? How can we shape our fictional scenes to give grief emotional force on the page?

Join novelist and creative writing teacher Damien Wilkins, whose latest novel the Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted Delirious has been praised for its depictionof characters dealing with profound loss.

If you’re already working on fiction which deals with grief, please bring a short extract, although there may not be time to discuss everyone’s work. Also bring tissues.