In Person Creative Writing Workshop (as part of Mental Health Month 2024)

Sunday 20 Oct

2pm - 4pm

23 Wilson Street Berri

This workshop will be held in person at Our Town Berri and facilitated by Alysha Herrmann. 

Write some words at our free workshop and then share them* at P.O.T. LUCK: You Are Enough Edition to celebrate Mental Health Month 2024. We are presenting two free workshops in the lead up to P.O.T. LUCK: You Are Enough Edition (one in person and one online). 

*you are very welcome at the workshop even if you don't intend to share your work at P.O.T. LUCK.

The workshops and P.O.T. LUCK: You Are Enough Edition are presented by Part of Things as part of Mental Health Month 2024. These activities are made possible with funding from the Mental Health Coalition of SA, Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, Our Town Berri, Riverland Community Suicide Prevention Network, and Riverland Youth Theatre.

Alysha Herrmann (she/her) lives, loves, and creates from regional South Australia. She is an award winning independent creative producer, writer, performance-maker, and community organiser, and is the co-founder of Part of Things. Alysha writes about vulnerability, community, hope, grief, forgiveness and belonging. Her work spans creative non-fiction (memoir, essays), experimental digital writing, script writing (screen and theatre), other performance texts, short stories, long-form fiction, and poetry (written and spoken). Recent work includes Writing the River Rising for Country Arts SA (SA), We repeat ourselves. There is no cure for Neoterica (SA), Drowned in the Saltbush Review (SA), Guthrak for Under the Microscope (SA), The Riverland of Rax for Critical Stages (NSW) and Paines Plough’s (UK) Come to Where I Am Australia, and DEV for State Theatre Company (SA) and ActNow Theatre’s (SA) Decameron 2.0. Her written work has been published by Currency Press, Griffith Review, Rochford Street Press, Routledge, Ginniderra Press, The Dirty Thirty, ABC Open and others.