NEW PUBLICATION - The exercise book

Edited by Bill Manhire, Ken Duncum, Chris Price and Damien Wilkins

Exercises give your body a workout. These exercises do the same for your imagination!

The Exercise Book is full of stimulating trigger ideas – a treasure trove for writers.  There are writing prompts here that will help those who are just beginning. There are others that tackle the dreaded condition known as writer’s block. Several exercises are designed specifically for the high school classroom.

The contributors are all published and successful writers and include staff from Victoria’s famed creative writing program – Ken Duncum, Bill Manhire, Chris Price, Damien Wilkins – and many others associated with the program as teachers and graduates.

(Emily Perkins, David Vann, Nigel Cox, Curtis Sittenfeld, Kate De Goldi, Dora Malech, Lavinia Greenlaw, Laurence Fearnley, Eirlys Hunter, James Brown, Kate Camp, Dinah Hawken, Jenny Bornholdt, Paula Morris, Hinemoana Baker, Catherine Chidgey and Kirsty Gunn – plus advice on how to create whole fictional worlds from Elizabeth and Sara Knox, David Geary and Eleanor Catton)

"Most of the exercises aim to start a sentence, a paragraph, the guts of something. At the same time there are suggestions of bigger possibilities. Go for it they keep cheering.

Stimulating? Hell, yes. Handy? Ditto. I’ll be using a lot of the ideas…”

David Hill for The Listener

Available to buy now from the PLAYMARKET website here