Sow and Tell: Writing the Garden

Gardens are rich and fertile places for writers. They are places of uncertainty, where things stir under the surface and we are not sure what will emerge. They are places of creativity and vitality, where new life blooms. Gardens hold their own stories too, and listening to these stories can inspire our own.

Come enjoy some slow time observing and writing in the NECCHI Wayi Garden with me. We will ground ourselves in this special place and open our senses to it. I will share a few writing tips, read you evocative pieces of garden writing, and offer some prompts to inspire new writing from you. No writing experience is necessary. You can write in any form: poems, stories, essays, fragments, journal entries, or stream-of-consciousness ramblings. We will attend to our inner and outer landscapes and see what takes root.

About Simone

Simone King (she/her) is a poet, editor and PhD student in creative writing who lives and writes on Wurundjeri Country. Simone’s poems and reviews have been published in poetry anthologies and journals including Best of Australian Poems 2022, Australian Poetry Anthology 2024, Rabbit Poetry, Cordite, Plumwood Mountain, and Mascara Literary Review’s Resilience Anthology. Simone won the 2022 Blake Poetry Prize and the 2021 Woorilla Poetry Prize and has been highly commended for other literary awards. She coedited What we Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, Recent Work Press, 2021.

Sow and Tell: Writing the Garden is a family-friendly workshop that will take place within NECCHi's Wayi Community Garden.