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The Writer’s Voice: What is it and how do I get one?

7/2/2020

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Wednesdays, 2pm – 4pm
26 February – 1 April 2020
Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia

This course is for writers of all abilities and experience and for those interested in fiction and non-fiction alike. What does it mean to ‘have a voice’ as a writer? Voice is something deeply personal, impossible to fake and almost as difficult to define. Voice is more than the expression of an opinion or an attitude, it is each individual writer’s most powerful tool for channelling ideas.
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Kylie in Australia

25/11/2019

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Kylie is now a Research Fellow at the Australian National University and working as a screenwriter on a 3D projection.
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'Tapestry' evening @ The Chapel, Bruton, Somerset - ​24 January 2019

20/12/2018

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Tapestry – The Story behind Bayeux — An evening with Kylie Fitzpatrick

In her novel, 'Tapestry', Kylie Fitzpatrick sets out to unravel the mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry, exploring the story of medieval women who stitched it, and the dying days of Anglo-Saxon England.

The Bayeux Tapestry is the most famous embroidery in the world. Its origins are mysterious. Although it tells the story of the victory of the Normans in 1066, it is believed to have been made in England in the eleventh century. In 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that it would be loaned to Britain for public display. It is expected to be exhibited at the British Museum from 2022, the first time that it has left France in 950 years.

“Fitzpatrick excels in presenting complex ideas and human frailty in the face of fear and desire” Saturday Telegraph

“A novel of genuine power and conviction” Sunday Times

£10 per ticket
To carry on the conversation after the event join us for supper, £15

Clubroom bar open from 6.30 pm; event starts promptly at 7pm. Please let The Chapel know if you are unable to use your ticket as we often have a waiting list.

​To book, go to The Chapel's website.

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August 28th, 2018

28/8/2018

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6 – 8 November 2018

This course – with the option of residential accommodation – is held at On the Brook, Bruton, Somerset.
£470. Includes tuition, lunch, tea and coffee. Early-bird bookings before 30 September, £450. 
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Novel Nights events in Bath

28/8/2018

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​The First Novel

In this talk and Q&A, Kylie Fitzpatrick will explore writing your first novel.
The evening will cover
  • Beginning
  • What to expect next
  • How this novel will be different from every other you write
  • Why you will keep writing novels
  • What happens when you finish (or think you are finished!)
  • Time: 7.30 – 9.30pm, Burdall’s Yard, Bath BA1 5NH
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To book tickets go to the Novel Nights website.
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Empathy Starts with ‘I’

18/7/2018

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This is the paper recently presented at the Empathy and Creativity Symposium at the University of Canberra. 
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Empathy and Creativity Symposium

19/6/2018

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My presentation at the Empathy and Creativity Symposium at the University of Canberra was titled: ‘Empathy Starts with 'I’’ and was an exploration of how journaling supports us in developing a unique writing voice, and at the same time reconnects us with our authentic selves.
​All in all, a wonderful event.
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Empathy and Creativity Symposium

4/6/2018

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15 June 2018

Kylie is a speaker at this first Empathy and Creativity Symposium in Australia.
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Tapestry - a long road to being published in English

5/2/2018

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Dear Reader,
 A short tale of a story close to my heart.
    In my twenties I accidentally became an actor. I was in a handful of decent plays, did countless auditions and some bad TV, and, as Alice in Wonderland, toured schools in the Australian outback with a theatre in education troupe. Doing auditions and reading scripts was the beginning of a lasting interest in how and why we tell stories, which gave me lots to think about whilst I became an experienced waitress. 
    I wanted to write, but this seemed even more irresponsible and unrealistic than be-ing an actor, so I didn’t take the aspiration seriously.
    Then I was asked out by an actor who was also a writer, who later told me that I had written ‘the most perfectly composed rejection letter he’d ever received.’ I tactfully didn’t ask him how many he had received. He offered me some work script editing, and then re-searching a television series he was developing about three powerful men who were rivals for the Saxon crown in the eleventh century.
    The series was never made, but in the process of researching I became preoccupied with a nine-hundred year old embroidery called the Bayeux Tapestry. Its unknown origin and cipher-like artwork captivated and enchanted me. The more I read about this embroi-dery called a tapestry, the more driven I was to discover who had made it and why. In the absence of satisfactory answers I formulated my own, inspired by some under-appreciated eleventh century women.
    By this time I was working as a production secretary on a television series, and part of my job was to operate script-formatting software. I was reading a lot of scripts, so it seemed natural that my writing should take the shape of a screenplay. I was fortunate to find a friend in the producer of that series, Denny Lawrence, who suggested to me that writing a first screenplay set in medieval Westminster and present-day Canterbury was quite ambitious, and perhaps I would consider writing my story as a novel instead?
    I thought he was mad. Write something as lengthy and complex as a novel? As if.
    Several drafts of my first novel later I was living in Bristol in the UK. I had now, on and off, been writing and rewriting Tapestry for almost ten years and I understandably thought it was finished. I sent some chapters out to several literary agents and waited. Fi-nally, Kate Hordern & Associates, called me.
    With the support of Kate Hordern, whose knowledge of the publishing business and book trade is singular, Tapestry underwent another makeover or two before the novel was finally finished.
    One night I received another significant phone call from Kate. Tapestry was being auctioned between two major German publishing houses. Kate, whose publishing back-ground was as Foreign Rights Director at Victor G0llancz, had a hunch the manuscript would interest German editors because German readers like historical novels and intricate plots.
    Given the response in Germany, we thought a UK publisher would soon follow, but months went by and editor after editor turned the novel down. It either wasn’t commercial enough or wasn’t literary enough; its parallel stories were too difficult to market; the cen-tral character in the contemporary storyline, Madeleine, was not a mainstream heroine. The reasons seemed boundless. Meanwhile, several more foreign publishers bought Tapes-try, which was eventually published in eight languages and became a bestseller in Ger-many.
    I got over feeling dispirited each time a rejection letter from a UK publisher arrived, and concentrated on writing The Secret of the Ninth Stone. That was fifteen years ago. I have since written three other novels.
    Today, Tapestry is released by my UK publisher, Head of Zeus.  I am delighted and excited and a little nervous. This story has been with me for a long time. It was, in a sense, my coming-of age as a writer. In writing and rewriting Tapestry I learnt technique and a craft. I spent so much time with its characters that they became like friends.
    Serendipitously, as I write this, the Bayeux Tapestry is itself creating news as it pre-pares to return to England from Normandy for the first time in almost a millennia. The enigma of the Bayeux Tapestry has been revived.
    Tapestry is available on Amazon worldwide in print and ebook. If you read the novel – and I hope you will – and like it, please consider writing an Amazon review. It really does make a difference to authors.  
    
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News for January 2018

20/12/2017

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My publisher, Head of Zeus, is publishing Tapestry and re-issuing two of my other novels. Watch this space for more information.
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