with Michaela Ironwood
De-Fluffing Drafts
When: Saturday, 28th of June 2-4pm
Where: Peter Cowan Writers Centre Inc, Edith Cowan House, Building 20, ECU Joondalup Campus, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup.
Cost: $25 PCWC & eligible WUWA Members, $37 non-members + Humanitix booking fee
Registrations & Payments: Link coming soon. Bookings are essential.
Parking: Free on weekends. Carparks 14 & 8 are closest to the house - you can park in any bay, regardless of signage.
Catering: Light refreshments will be available (tea, coffee, biscuits). If you have special dietary requirements, please feel free to bring your own snacks if you wish.
Please do not attend the session if you are unwell, have tested positive to COVID-19, are awaiting a test result, or recovering from infection.
Workshop Overview
De-fluffing Drafts offers an introduction to self-editing prose. Through an interactive discussion of self-editing techniques and how to apply them, this activity-based workshop allows writers to practise skills as they go. From filters to redundancies, we’ll critique the sneaky ways writing can be ‘fluffed’ up during drafting and explore methods for de-fluffing. The final activity will give participants the chance to put it all together by self-editing a piece of their own writing. Writers will leave with the confidence to identify ‘fluff’ and apply self-editing skills when revising their own drafts.
Michaela Ironwood is a writer and freelance editor based in Perth, Western Australia. She is one of the Emerging Writers Program participants for 2024-25 through Writing WA and PCWC. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and an Undergraduate Certificate in Professional Writing and Publishing.
