Ela Fornalska will guide participants through different activities to create their own wellbeing practice through the art of writing. It will be completely beginner friendly.

Emerge Louder

A workshop with Hawraa Kash

A writing workshop with Sam Petersen.

Do you find it hard to put your feelings into words? Are you struggling to find ideas? Has the muse left you and inspiration fled? Are you stuck in a rut with your writing — revisiting the same metaphors and line breaks again and again?

It’s time to neurohack your writing and get out of your poetry slump!

In this two hour workshop with Indrani Perera, author of pas de deux and editor of the Pocketry Almanack, you’ll learn how to get out of your head and creep into the cracks by exploring the spaces in between. 

Approaching 25 years of emceeing Passionate Tongues Poetry, Michael Reynolds will share things he's learned, mostly the hard way, about hosting poetry events. By sharing anecdotes and dodgy advice to budding emcees, this will be a semi-serious take on being the one introducing poets onto the stage. There will be a Q+A session where he'll probably make a fool of himself.

Which comes first for you: the poem on the page, or on the stage? How can our poetry flow back and forth between pen and performance? How can the experience of performance enhance the words on the page? Facilitated by Es Foong / Waffle Irongirl, this workshop explores your individual journey through poetry in performance.

Welcome to Haiku In The Hills, a playful Poetry Month experience that explores the Japanese poetic form on Wurundjeri land, amidst the cool temperate rainforests of the Dandenong Ranges. Part writing workshop and part bushwalk, we will walk, contemplate and create Haiku together.

A writing workshop with Fleassy Malay from Mother Tongue.

A writing workshop with Aunty Sharon Hughes and Kristen Munro from Storyline Aboriginal Writers Group

History is displayed in signs and facades, breathed into the leaves of red river gums and plane trees, shaped into the corners and slopes of streets and beds of grass, resounding in busker ballads and protest chants, held in the bubbles and sediments of bluestone that we walk over and are sheltered by. In this walking poetry workshop, we will connect with the power of place, respecting and knowing that the street grids of Naarm, so-called ‘Melbourne’, are a colonial form imposed on Woi-Worrung and Bunurung lands and waters.