UBUD Writers & Readers Festival 2015

Dear Friends, Bursting with colour, texture and over 220 unmissable events with 170+ writers, our 2015 Program Book is now ready to flip through. We hope it makes you as excited for this year's UWRF as we are ... only six weeks to go! This week's eNews focuses on our Workshop series, your chance to learn from our program's best and brightest. Whether you aspire to Create Audacious Prose with Chigozie Obioma or Learn to Write by Reading with Emily Bitto, we've got what you're after. Don't forget to purchase your 4-DAY PASS and gain access to 85+ Main Program sessions;1-DAY, Student, KITAS and for the first time ASEAN discount Passes also available. Workshop Program: learn from our best & brightest Using Fear as a Tool Porochista Khakpour 29 October | 1:30 - 4:30pm Kori Ubud In this workshop you will attempt a variety of exercises designed to get us to look up, not down, before jumping off that edge, and master the inevitable anxieties, self-doubt, paralysis and panic that come at every stage of writing. From IDR 250,000 Book now >>> Learn to Write by Reading Emily Bitto 30 October | 9:00 - 12:00pm Kori Ubud Fine-tuning how you read is a powerful way to improve your writing. Sit in with this Stella Prize-winning author as you focus on the technical elements of fiction, such as plot, perspective, dialogue and imagery, and leave with skills to develop over time. From IDR 250,000  Book now >>> More   Create Audacious Prose Chigozie Obioma 31 October | 2:00 - 5:00pm Kori Ubud Bypass ‘less’ for ‘more’ with the recently Man Booker-nominated Chigozie Obioma. You will visit the beauty and art of ‘audacious prose’ – lyrical writing that pushes boundaries and is aesthetically pleasing, but is not overwritten. From IDR 250,000Book now >>>