One-on-one mentoring session with award-winning novelist Brannavan Gnanalingam

A one-on-one mentoring sessions on a variety of subjects with award-winning novelist Brannavan Gnanalingam. These include how to write and finish your book around work / life, how to make 3D characters, and how to deploy humour. These are based on sold out workshops he has done for established festivals like Verb and Auckland Writers Festival.

Brannavan Gnanalingam is an award-winning novelist based in Pōneke of Sri Lankan-Tamil heritage. He is the author of Sprigs (winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards), Sodden Downstream (also shortlisted at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards), and A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (longlisted at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards). He is also a former columnist for the Sunday-Star Times, and winner of a Qantas Media Award (as it was then known) as a film reviewer for The Lumière Reader. The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat is his eighth novel.