What is the difference between jealousy, envy and admiration? Are we more likely to envy those with talent or those with luck? Is everyone jealous and, if not, when does jealousy begin? This session looks at both the experience of jealousy and its practical side, considering ways in which we can process and negate the emotion or transform it into an advantage, using it in our work.
Details
- When: Tuesday 6 August, 6.30–8pm
- Where: Online
- With: With Robyn Dennison, Thabani Tshuma and moderated by Anna Kate Blair
About the Tutor
Thabani Tshuma is a multi-award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as Dichotomi magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, CUBBY ART, and ABC ArtWorks’ SLAMMED. Thabani is co-curator of Thin Red Lines and his debut collection, The Gospel of Unmade Creation, released in 2023 through Recent Work Press. Writing is the aperture through which he views the world and experiences self in relation to others.
Anna Kate Blair is outgoing Program and Partnerships Manager at Writers Victoria. Her first novel, The Modern, was published by Scribner in September 2023. Anna’s essays, short stories and poems have appeared in publications including Meanjin, Good Weekend, Reckoning, Cordite Poetry Review, Tell Us Who We Were Before Life Made Us, Slow Canoe and Litro and have won awards including the Warren Trust Award for Architectural Writing, the AAWP Creative Non-Fiction Prize and the Wyndham Short Story Prize.