Arrhythmic Rivers & Creative Personifications: A Writing Workshop with Nhã Thuyên and Alvin Pang

How can creative writing be used to confront, address and respond to the challenges facing the environment that surrounds us? How can creative writing methods enable us to individually and collectively give voice to local concerns? How might a poem or storytelling help us to document climate change impacts, and/or speculate about potential futures? This writing workshop, led by local and international writers, aims to stimulate thinking and creative discussion about environments and the climate emergency through creative writing approaches.

Facilitators:

Nhã Thuyên secludedly anchors herself to Hà Nội, Việt Nam and totters between languages as a writer, translator and editor. She has been unearthing her notebooks and rubbing her words, learning to quietly speak up with care.

Alvin Pang, PhD, is an internationally published poet whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. A Consulting Editor with his own practice, he is also editor-in-chief of public policy journal ETHOS, and Adjunct Professor of RMIT University.

Michelle Aung Thin is a novelist, essayist and academic. She writes about colonial Burma and contemporary Myanmar, cross-cultural identity, mythology and encounter.

David Carlin is an award-winning essayist, scholar and interdisciplinary creative artist, who has worked as a writer and director across theatre, film and circus. He co-founded RMIT’s non/fictionLab research group and the transnational Asia-Pacific WrICE program.

Jessica Wilkinson is a poet and academic who writes and writes about ‘poetic biography’ and documentary poetry.