How does place inhabit you? How do the spaces you move through move, in turn, through your writing?
In this workshop, you are invited to consider your relationship with place and how this emerges in and shapes your writing. In conversation with examples of place-writing from across space and time, you will have the opportunity to articulate and develop your own constructions of place.
Together, we will consider questions of belonging and unbelonging, the nuances of being ‘from’ and being ‘of’ a place and the conditions under which space turns to place and place turns to home. You will have time to write and workshop your own poetry over the course of the day. While the session focuses on poetic techniques, fiction and non-fiction writers can use these techniques in their work to evoke place.
Details
- When: Sunday 13 April, 10am–4pm
- Where: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
- With: Nadia Niaz
About the Tutor
Nadia Niaz is the author of The Djinn Hunters (2023, Rabbit Press), which was Highly Commended in the 2023 Anne Elder Award, and the founding editor of the Australian Multilingual Writing Project. Most recently, her poetry was featured in Reading the City of Literature: A celebration of a year of Melbourne writing and publishing (2023). Her work explores multilingual creative expression, translation and what ‘belonging’ means. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.