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Talks and Seminars
Will be available again after the coronavirus is controlled!
Speaker
Patti Miller has been presenting Talks, Readings and Seminars since the 1980s. She gives talks and seminars on a diverse rang of topics in the area of Memoir, including: Identity and Belonging in Memoir, The Difficulties of Truth Telling; Finding Inspiration; Overcoming Procrastination; Restoring Your Creativity; The Doors to Memory; The Dangerous Borderlands – memoir and fiction; Motherhood and Writing; Autobiography and the Artist’s Self Portrait; Myths, Miracles and Creativity; Nature Writing; Travel Memoir.
She gives talks on French literary topics (in English): Writing In Paris; French Memoirists; and an Introduction to French Literature.
She has given talks and seminars at the NSW State Library, the Wheeler Centre Victoria; The Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop, Café de la Mairie and Shakespeare & Co Bookshop in Paris; Soirée Litteraire in Sydney, Alliance Français in Melbourne and Sydney; UQP Literary Dinner Brisbane; the Lyceum Club in Melbourne and Sydney; Bar Luna, Bali; the NSW Genealogical Society; numerous libraries and bookshops throughout country NSW and Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne; the Society of Women Writers, Sydney. She has appeared at Writers Festivals in Sydney, Adelaide, Newcastle, Shepparton, Byron Bay, Blue Mountains, Bendigo; Geelong, Bellingen, Mudgee and Darwin.
Contact pmiller@lifestories.com.au to book for seminars, panels or talks on literary topics, particularly memoir, French literature and creativity.
Judging
Patti judged the NSW Premier’s Awards Non-Fiction in 2014, 2015; the Russell Prize in 2017; and the Society of Women Writers Writing Competition in 1997. She has been the judge for the Varuna/Creative Cultures Regional Writing Competition 1994 and for Varuna Fellowship Assessments from 1993 to 1996, And for writing competitions for the U.T.S Short Story Competition in 1993, 94, 95.