Online Course: A Portal to Poetry: Writing & Poetry at the Word Level
Date:
With:
Sara M Saleh
Rating:
ALL
Summary:
In this generative writing workshop, we will find the writing prompt in everything. We will explore some tools for intentional reading as a way to build portals into a poem when we can’t find a door. We’ll learn to sit with inspiration and create the conditions to host and sustain it. We will explore the way language in its various shapes and forms presents itself in our writing so that we may better understand it, to bend, break, and play with its rules. Together we will workshop ideas and techniques for new poems. This is suitable for everyone who wants to push their craft in surprising twists and turns.
Details
This workshop will take place online. Detailed instructions for participation will be provided.
You will learn:
• to hone your writing practice
• to defeat ‘writer’s block’ through tips and prompts
• to find inspiration in unexpected places
• to step out of your poetic form comfort zone
• to workshop a poem with feedback
About Sara M Saleh
Sara M Saleh is a human rights activist and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, living on Gadigal land. A poet and writer, her pieces have been published in English and Arabic in various national and international outlets and anthologies including Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin, Overland Journal, and Rabbit Poetry. She is co-editor of the 2019 anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity. Sara is the first poet to win both the Australian Book Review’s 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2020. She is currently developing her debut novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living, as a recipient of the inaugural Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Western Sydney.
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Venue:
Australia
Contact:
Phone: 90947895
Email: [email protected]