South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Award 2024 winner Jen Saunders leads a poetry workshop responding to the gallery exhibition "Shape Shifters". This workshop aims to inspire and motivate participants to write new work. Participants will read and discuss examples of poetry that responds to both art and artist as a springboard for developing their own work. This workshop will include a 30-minute exhibition tour led by gallery staff.

Poetry Workshop introductory talk 12:30 - 12:45
Gallery-Volunteer-Led Shape Shifters Exhibitions Tour 12:45 - 1:15
Poetry Workshop 1:15 - 2:45

Image: Michael Butler, Are You Being Served?, 2007, collage, pen on board. 40(h) x 84.2(w) cm. Private Collection. Photograph Jennifer Leahy

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Jen Saunders is a researcher using words, sound and visual art to investigate narratives of local place. In 2024 Jen won the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Award, judged by Judith Beveridge. She has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2017), the joanne burns MicroLit Award (2016), and published poetry in Hecate, Hobo, Imago, Australian Book Review and Cordite. Her essays and fiction have appeared with The Sociological Review, GeoHumanities (with Susan Ballard), The Conversation, Baby Teeth Journal and Landmarks (a Spineless Wonders anthology).