Ekphrastic Writing Workshop

EKPHRASTIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH LINDA GODFREY

We will play with images from the River of Art exhibition to serve as inspiration, to write about in vivid detail, play with images, to write something a little differently. You will leave the workshop with a piece of writing that you can take away to refine, to enter the River of Art short fiction and poetry competition.

In the workshops, there will be a short definition of, and discussion about, ekphrastic (art) writing. The facilitator, Linda Godfrey, will talk about the River of Art writing competition, then the group will walk to the gallery to view images to inspire your writing.

We will come back to the space, the facilitator will guide the group through a few writing exercises, then the participants will begin work on their writing piece, whether short fiction or poetry for the competition. There is plenty of time for writing and discussion during the workshop.

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IMPORTANT BOOKING INFORMATION

Saturday 27 September, 1:00–3:30pm: MONARCH HOTEL, 50 Vulcan Street, Moruya 2537

Sunday 28 September, 10:30am–1:00pm: WELL THUMBED BOOKS, 51 Princes Highway, Cobargo 2550

Please note there is a short walk between the workshop venue and the gallery on both days. Participants who have trouble walking may wish to drive.

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Linda Godfrey is a writer, poet and editor and has a Masters of Professional Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published poetry and short stories in anthologies and online. Linda was the Program Manager of the Wollongong Writers Festival 2015 to 2018.  She is a fiction reader for Overland and was the online fiction editor for Overland Autumn 2018. Linda has a chapbook of prose poetry published, Count the Ways, won the AAWP’s First Chapter prize in 2021 and was short-listed for the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Prize. She lives on Wodi Wodi land, on the south coast of New South Wales, land that has never been ceded.