Winter School – Poetry and the Past
Date:
With:
Ali Alizadeh
Rating:
EARLY, EMERGING
Summary:
Write new poems based on your own life stories, or draw on famous figures and important historical events. Explore exciting modern and contemporary poems that remember and reflect on the past, and develop your own poems about the past through encounters with memory and history.
Details
You will learn
- how to access personal history and memory through poetry
- how to write about famous figures and important events of the past effectively
- how to transform a past personal experience into an engaging poem
- how to use the medium of poetry for commenting on the past
- how to write successful, publishable poems.
About Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh’s second collection of poetry, ‘Ashes in the Air’, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Ali is a lecturer in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Monash University. His books include the controversial short story cycle ‘Transactions’ and the forthcoming historical novel ‘The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc’.
You can check out our interview with Ali about exploring the distance between now and then on this website.
Ali will also be the guest speaker at The Salon Does Season 2 at Writers Victoria in June 2016.
Winter School
Check out the other Winter School workshops going on in July 2016:
- Winter School – Poetry and the Past with Ali Alizadeh
- Winter School – Getting Your Manuscript Ready for Submission with Shivaun Plozza
- Winter School – Getting a Story Started with Amie Kaufman
- Winter School – The Narrative in Non-Fiction with Damon Young
- Winter School – Songwriting with Charles Jenkins
- Winter School – How to Run a Writing Event with Sam Twyford-Moore
- Winter School – YA with Fiona Wood
- Winter School – Ghostwriting with David Brewster
- Winter School – Blogging with Karen Andrews
- Winter School – On the Page with Clare Strahan
- Winter School – Historical Fiction with Kate Mildenhall
- Winter School – The Ethics of Using Real Stories in Fiction with Laura Jean McKay
- Winter School – Travel Writing with Kate J Armstrong
- Winter School – Fantasy and Magic Realism in Short Story with Leanne Hall
Venue:
Registration for this event ended on 04 July 2016 - 9:00