Workshop: CAPTURING QUAKE STORIES


Amanda Cropp

Learn how to write your own personal story of New Zealand’s biggest ever natural disaster. Amanda Cropp, Christchurch journalist and author of Shaken, Not Stirred: Family survival in a quake zone, will explain how to go about creating an engaging account of life post-quake. This workshop is designed to help ‘shake loose’ memories to record in print the hard times, the good times, the downright funny times, and all those little details that made your quake experience unique.

Freelance journalist Amanda Cropp has spent 30 years telling other people’s stories. Her award-winning feature writing has appeared in publications from North & South to the New York Times. After turning freelance 17 years ago, Amanda authored New Zealand’s first book on investigative reporting.


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Date/Time

31 Aug 2012
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Cost:$40
Location

YMCA