Kathryn Heyman’s latest book, Captain Starlight’s Apprentice, is in development with JACK AND JILL FILMS.
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Vogue Australia article on Mentoring and Being Mentored - issue change
My article on mentoring new writers, and the experience of working with Rachel Ward on the screenplay of Captain Starlight's Apprentice, was to run in Vogue Australia in the October edition - it will run now in the January issue. Of course, because this is magazineland, the January issue is out on 1st December. No, I don't know why either.
Masterclasses NSW
I'm running a one day Writing Masterclass at the New South Wales Writers Centre in Rozelle, on Sunday 5 September.
Writer in Residence, Bundanon
I'm always inspired by our forbears who thought ahead to future generations; the ones who thought to plant rows of trees along walks that would never grow in their lifetime. Arthur Boyd, the Australian artist, was such a one. In his estate, he gifted his property, Bundanon (www.bundanon.com.au ) to future generations of artists, musicians and writers. I'm grateful in theory for that generosity, but also grateful in practice, as I'm sneaking in for a residency in October. I'll be using the time to edit my flood-greed-religion novel at last, at last, at last. I've thought I was finished before, so I should just hold my tongue in fact. There's a baby grand piano in the living room of the cottage, so I might seek inspiration by plonking out baby versions of Bach and Satie.
Storm: The Tempest on trapeze
I've been working with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus on a re-imagining of The Tempest, for circus theatre. The project is the baby of Markus Michalowski, of Rumble fame. August saw us in Melbourne with the choreographer and designer, all of us ignoring the Trades Hall chairs and lying on the floor instead, like a group of kindergarten students, or snakes. The play, Storm, will premier in January 2012, and there's a second Creative Development phase in early October. With each phase, the show becomes less language based, yet oddly more story based. Working with artists whose primary means of communication is the body has been a fantastic reminder about simplicity and clarity in storytelling. And a reminder of how much I love dance.
Captain Starlight's Apprentice
 The novel is in development with Jack and Jill Films, a small independent UK production company who made the French film The Burial which won the London Independent Film Festival's Best Foreign Film. They have a beautiful sensibility and not a load of money, so 'in development' sort of means trying to find large pots of money to make the actual film. Interviews
Click here to read an interview with Kathryn Heyman in The Scotsman.
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