Join a poetry workshop with a difference with award-winning West Auckland poet Janet Charman. Selections from Janet’s own extensive body of published poetry collections will be shared during this session as a springboard for developing and enhancing your own poetry writing and finding new pathways to publication. You will learn:

- how to grow your skills and confidence in writing and share your unique voice through poetry
- the benefits of exploring different publishing models and how they can help you find new audiences for your work
- how to grow your creative writing both independently and in collaboration with other writers and artists

Signed copies of Janet's most recently published works will also be available at discounted festival rates for cash sales on the day or her work can be borrowed from Auckland Council Libraries' collection.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janet Charman is a complete original, utterly distinctive in voice and content. She has received multiple awards and residencies for her writing and lectured in English at the University of Auckland for many years. She received the Best Book of Poetry Award at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for Cold Snack. At the 2023 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards her 2022 collection, The Pistils (Otago University Press), was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.

Janet’s tenth poetry collection, The Intimacy Bus, published in March 2025 by Otago University Press, was selected for this year’s We Read Auckland Bestie collection representing six of Tāmaki Makaurau’s most talented emerging and established poets. This August, she also launches her self-published collaborative work, 28 Days, with artist Elizabeth Coleman.