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Writing a Non-Boring Family Story for a Significant Child

  • Victorian Archives Centre 99 Shiel Street North Melbourne, VIC, 3051 Australia (map)

To celebrate Family History Month, Hazel Edwards will provide you with the tools needed to plan and write a family history story or anecdote aimed at entertaining the younger children in your family.

You'll learn researching and interviewing skills, how to organise your material, structuring a book, making it interesting for the reader, formatting and publishing options, handling family secrets, editing and proofreading, how to write using all senses and perspectives, plus launching and marketing possibilities.

Hazel Edwards, OAM, is an award-winning author of books for children and adults. Her beloved picture book series 'There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake' has been hugely popular for 45 years. Hazel was awarded the Australian Society of Authors’ Medal and has three nominations for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Every year she writes a birthday story for each of her four grandsons.

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