How and what people say – and what they don’t – enriches and advances a story.

Join National Book Award finalist and internationally best-selling author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement Rumaan Alam for a masterclass on the role of dialogue in fiction.

Together you’ll engage in close reading of several writers including Helen Garner, Miriam Toews, John Updike and Jhumpa Lahiri, and discuss the different ways dialogue can be used as a tool to enhance a story, and how you go about letting characters speak for themselves in your own work.