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5 week Creative Non Fiction: Life Stories workshop at The Hunt Club in Deer Park. The course is designed to help you explore memories and turn them into vivid prose by using the senses and incorporating fictional writing elements. It commences Wednesday 29 February 6.30-9pm $81/$76 concession. Sign up or ask about the course
Demet is running a Creative Non Fiction: Life Stories workshop at the Hunt Club which will focus on turning memories into engaging prose by using fictional writing elements. Workshop commences 20 July for 5 sessions. For more information or to book call 9249 4600 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
An interview in Turkish and English with Demet Divaroren on SBS radio.
A $10,000 ARTSTART grant has been awarded to Demet to assist with her writing career.

Previous News

Demet has been selected to participate in an intensive Non-Fiction Masterclass with Robin Hemley in January 2011
Demet in the media - Hume Weekly
Demet's short story Foreign Sleep will be published in Island Magazine in March 2010.
November 2009 - Demet was awarded a Rosebank Residential Writing Fellowship.
Demet's story You no have English? is featured in Scribe's New Australian Stories anthology.
August 2009 - Demet was awarded a Varuna Fellowship for a Writing Retreat.

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