Join Us at the 2025 Regional Writers Rise Festival!

📍 Location: Moe Library

✍️ Writers Workshop: Yes, I'm a Writer with Amy Espeseth

Are you ready to unearth your unique voice and unleash your inner storyteller? Join award-winning novelist Amy Espeseth in this immersive, craft-based workshop tailored for emerging writers in rural Australia.

In ‘Yes, I'm a Writer’, Amy melds the rugged, unyielding textures of gritty realism with the shimmering allure of magical realism and the lyrical cadence of nature’s own poetry. Through hands-on exercises, reflective discussions, and vibrant storytelling techniques, you’ll learn to:

Channel Authenticity: Uncover and amplify your most sincere experiences, turning the everyday into narratives that resonate with truth and heart.
Embrace the Enchantment: Blend elements of mystery and magic into your work, transforming familiar landscapes into realms of wonder.
Find Your Rhythm: Discover the power of poetic repetition and nature-inspired imagery to give your writing a voice as timeless as the land itself.

Set against the vast, inspiring backdrop of rural Australia, this workshop is more than just a writing class—it's a nurturing space where you can confidently proclaim, ‘Yes, I'm a Writer’.

Let Amy’s expertise guide you as you learn to craft stories that are both fierce in their honesty and beautifully evocative, echoing the ceaseless pulse of nature around you.

Transform your passion into power. Your story deserves to be told—loud, clear, and boldly authentic.

Amy Espeseth is an acclaimed writer, academic, and communication specialist originally from rural Wisconsin and now based in Gippsland. With a wealth of accolades, including multiple literary awards and a celebrated debut novel, Sufficient Grace (Scribe, 2012), Amy has also excelled as a publisher, editor and community advocate. Drawing on decades of experience in creative and strategic communication, she now leads Anywhere Creative, offering tailored solutions to empower small businesses, not-for-profits and communities through effective and impactful strategies. Tell your story with anywherecreative.com.au

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