Wednesday 17 September, 6PM-7PM (AEST)
Ethers / Digital & Partnered Event
Youth Workshop: Poetic Obsessions
How do we write poetry that is fully shaped by the crucible of our experiences – our histories, our futures, our obsessions? Where can we take our writing, and where can our writing take us?
As part of Red Room Poetry’s Youth Ambassadors program, this workshop is designed especially for poets under 25 who are looking to ground their creative practice in the stories and landscapes that surround them.
Led by Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money, this session invites you to explore how poetry can reveal the world around us in exciting and surprising ways, and offer openings to consider the living histories and stories of the places we write from.
Book your spot here
Please note, this workshop is specifically for poets under 25.
In partnership with Red Room Poetry.
Online, via Zoom
Online
Featuring...
Jazz Money
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz’s debut poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the 2020 David Unaipon Award, and their second collection mark the dawn (UQP, 2024) was awarded the 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award. Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) interrogates legacies of archives on First Nations people and was commissioned by the Australian National Film and Sound Archive.
You might also like...
The 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers: A Celebration
Join Overland to celebrate the winners of the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Judges Mykaela Saunders and Nardi Simpson will introduce the winning writer and two runners-up, to be announced on the night.
EWF at the Cinémathèque
Three writers absorbed by the inter-disciplinary, creatively respond to three unique seasons at Melbourne’s coolest film society: The Cinémathèque.
Faber Writing Academy Anthology Launch
Join us at The Wheeler Centre for the launch of the Faber Writing Academy Anthology, featuring Melbourne’s Writing a Novel students alongside students from Writing True Stories and Writing Creative Nonfiction courses.
Writing Against Silencing: PEN Melbourne Workshop
By inviting workshop participants to write against the attempted silencing of emerging writers, we will consider what it means to create in danger, under censorship, and the importance of free creative expression.
Subscribe to our email newsletter: