Readers & Writers Festival - Time & Place
Saturday 25th July 2026

Time & Place
With Sky O'Brien

Work with Sky O’Brien to write about “place” in fiction and non-fiction. Writing from the first person point of view, you will try a range of techniques that combine research and lived experience to build atmospheric settings. We will also explore how movement through time and intentional omission of details can shape meaning.
About Your Presenter
Sky O’Brien is a writer from Perth and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, United States. He is also Managing Editor of Dispatches Magazine, an arts and culture magazine based in Berkeley, California, where he writes about art, literature and politics.