The Nuts & Bolts of Writing Historical Fiction

Whether you are writing a novel based on real events or telling a fictional story set in the past, every writer of historical fiction wants their work to be both captivating and accurate.

This two hour workshop will introduce you to techniques for combining research with a novelist’s tools to create characters and settings that are engaging, believable and historically authentic. Learn how to put your research to work without overloading your narrative, build convincing historical characters and worlds and write cracking dialogue that’s true to your era.

Rachael Mead

Rachael Mead is a South Australian novelist and poet, with her creative work appearing widely in Australia and internationally. She’s the author of the novel The Application of Pressure (Affirm Press 2020) and four collections of poetry including The Flaw in the Pattern (UWAP 2018). In 2019, she spent a month in the Taleggio Valley in Northern Italy on an eco-poetry residency awarded by Australian Poetry. She recently won the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature to continue work on her novel about the first Australian woman in Antarctica, The Art of Breaking Ice, which is due for publication in 2023.