Receive personal & insightful feedback on your writing in an intimate, supportive class environment.

A short, intensive session for poets to receive constructive feedback on a small group of poems or one longer poem. It will be especially useful for writers looking to submit work for publication or submissions opportunities.

Supportive critical comments will be provided on formal and thematic aspects, along with questions, suggestions and resources as may be helpful. Each participant will receive written and oral feedback from the convenor, as well as benefit from peer input by reading and responding to the work of all participants.

Format & additional information

This is a poetry feedback clinic with a focus on writing craft; it will be held in-person. This course is recommended for emerging poets but is suitable for committed writers of all levels with work-in-progress poetry.

Applications for the course will close, and draft poems will be due for submission to Queensland Writers Centre, by Friday 4 October.

Submit:

two poems each no longer than one page, or
one poem no longer than two pages (maximum 30 lines per page).

Poems may be incomplete but should be developed enough to benefit from the advice offered. Queensland Writers Centre will assess all applications and select writers for the course. As well as oral feedback in the session, the convenor will also provide written comments via Track Changes (not detailed edits or corrections), which will be provided shortly following the session.

Learning outcomes

In this clinic, you will:

Receive personal feedback on poems.
Acquire skills in reading, editing and developing poetry.
Deepen understanding of aspects of poetic form.
Reflect on poems’ strengths.
Develop self-editing skills.
Apply knowledge gained in clinic to future work.
Hear and contribute to feedback on the work of other writers.

About Mindy

Mindy's work has been recognised both nationally and internationally, by awards and fellowships such as the Queensland Premier's Young Writers and Publishers Award, the RMIT Visiting Poets Program, the CMI Arts Initiative in Chennai, and the Australian Poetry/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship in Val Taleggio, Italy, amongst others. In 2021, Mindy was named Australian Book Review's fifth Rising Star.

Mindy's poetry and criticism have appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Australian Book Review, Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Island Magazine, Australian Poetry Journal, Hecate, Cordite, Stilts, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Mascara Literary Review, Meanjin Plumwood Mountain, StylusLit, The Lifted Brow, The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, the Institute of Modern Art and the Queensland Art Gallery. From 2017-2020, Mindy was Peril Magazine's Editor-in-Chief.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info