Poetry Writing Workshop (Mount Gambier)

Join Alysha Herrmann for this practical poetry writing workshop to celebrate National Poetry Month. 

Together we’ll explore slam poetry and other spoken word techniques, spend some time writing to prompts, and have the opportunity to share some of our work aloud with each other. The session will include examples from Alysha’s work, lots of opportunity to ask questions, and a whole bunch of weird and wonderful launching off points for your own independent writing projects.

Participants will:

• learn the basic rules of slam poetry and write the first draft of a slam poem
• write new poem fragments in response to unexpected prompts
• meet and collaborate with other like-minded writers
• leave with at least one new idea!

 
Materials needed: Participants to BYO preferred writing tools (laptop or pen & paper etc)

With thanks to City of Mount Gambier for use of inkind venue at Mount Gambier Library. 

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.