Writing Migration Stories
Sunday 11 October 2026 at 10:30 AM
Bunjil Place Library
Event Description
A practical, reflective workshop that will help participants shape migration experiences into vivid, ethical and compelling stories.
The session explores migration as a universal narrative of loss, hope, rupture and reinvention, while building strategies for writing characters with depth and specificity rather than relying on cultural shorthand or sentimental tropes.
Through writing exercises and discussion, participants will learn how to draw on memory, family history and personal observation with craft, restraint and care.
You will learn:
· How to avoid stereotypes, inherited clichés and sentimental shortcuts when writing across culture and experience
· How to use lived experience, family history and observation with honesty, craft and restraint
· How to gather story material through interviewing, listening, recording and archival research
Moreno Giovannoni is a Melbourne-based writer and translator whose work explores migration, memory and stories carried across generations. Born to Italian parents from the Tuscan village of San Ginese, he draws on family history and oral tradition to blend folklore, lived experience and historical insight.
When
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Sunday 11 October 2026
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Where
Bunjil Place Library
2 Patrick Northeast Drive
Narre Warren VIC 3805
Australia
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Notes & Requirements
Participants should bring an object or photograph that might be an inspiration for their writing and that they would be able to talk about to the group very briefly.
Event Partner
Presented with the support of The City of Casey
Bookings
Please log in with your library credentials to reserve your place at this event. You may also book by phone or at your nearest library.
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