Life Stories Workshop
was founded by award-winning writer, Patti Miller in 1991 .
What is Life Stories Workshop?
Life Stories Workshop offers high quality writing services for writers at all levels of experience:
We specialise in the genre of life writing, which includes autobiography, memoir, biography, travel writing, narrative non-fiction, true crime, nature writing and the personal essay. Life writing is a way of exploring your own experience of life, other people’s lives, and places, events and ideas. You can write about your year in Paris, your grandmother’s childhood in Romania, your olive farm in outback Australia, or about any researched, topic from a personal perspective.
In life writing, you are facing yourself as much as if you were sailing solo around the world, so it is a pursuit for the adventurous. Life writing is not about producing straightforward historical records nor is it an exercise in self-justification, but is a true journey of exploration in both life and literature. It is creatively challenging and personally rewarding.
Latest books by Patti Miller
True Friends
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This powerful book reminds us of the centrality and complexity of friendships
in our lives, and why they should be celebrated.
The Joy of High Places
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With rare insight and poetic writing, The Joy of High Places combines physical adventure with a powerful emotional journey.
Writing True Stories
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The updated complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction.
Ransacking Paris
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An exquisite memoir of a year spent daydreaming in Paris.
PAST BOOK EVENTS 2024
April
Writers Festival : Writers at the Woolshed
Date: 20th/21st April
Location: Wagga Wagga
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May
Book Event : Growing Up on Wiradjuri Country
Date: 4th May
Location: Bathurst Library
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June
Book Launch : Writing True Stories
Date: 15th June
Location: Better Read Than Dead Bookshop, Newtown, Sydney
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Past Book Events 2023
February
Book Talk: True Friends
Date: 8th Feb
Location: Society of Women Writers
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May
Book Talk – True Friends
Date: 16th May
Location: Bowral Library
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November
Book Talk – Truth Telling
Date: 11th Nov
Location: FAW Welby Hall
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Past Book Events 2022
April
Writers at Stanton: Book Talk – True Friends
Date: 5th April
Location: Stanton Library, North Sydney
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In Conversation: Charlotte Wood with Patti Miller on True Friends
Date: 14th April
Location: State Library, Sydney
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May
Kyogle Writers Festival – True Friends Conversation + Life Stories workshop
Date: 14th and 15th May
Location: Kyogle
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Life Stories workshops and Talk
Date: 16 and 17th May
Location: Lismore pop-up Library and Ballina Library
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Sydney Writers Festival: My Brilliant Friends
Date: 19th May
Location: SWF Redfern
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Bathurst Writers Festival: My Brilliant Friends
Date: 21st May
Location: BMEC , Bathurst
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In Conversation: Ailsa Piper with Patti Miller – True Friends
Date: 26th May
Location: Woollahra Library, Eastern suburbs, Sydney
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May – Melbourne
In Conversation: Lee Koffman with Patti Miller – True Friends
Date: 4th May
Location: Readings Bookshop Carlton
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May – Brisbane
In Conversation Patti Miller and Kris Olsson – True Friends
Date: 28th May
Location: Avid Reader, West End, Brisbane
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June – Central Coast
Words on the Waves: The Beautiful Friend – panel
Date: 4th June
Location: Central Coats, Umina
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July – Canberra
Muse Bookshop – In Conversation
Date: 3 pm 17th July
Location: Canberra
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More to come – watch this space or the Upcoming Events and Workshops page.