The Creative Writing workshop encourages participants to try a variety of genres and forms. Participants are introduced to strategies for developing their powers of description,
both through recall and observation, employing the senses to bring their writing alive. They encounter poetry via discussion of the use of line and space in contemporary poems.
The writers work on memoir; the personal essay; free verse poetry; haiku; and experiment with hybrid forms balancing poetry with prose or image.
While writing is often a solitary activity, workshopping proves productive within the stream, where participants are encouraged to make editorial suggestions about stories and poems.
The Creative Writing workshop has the goal of helping the writers to see the narrative and poetic potential of their stories and experiences, and for each individual to develop effective
writing habits which they can take away from the Program. They produce work which provokes debate and offers insights, and celebrates language as an aesthetic and open medium.
Note: Artists are listed in the category of the creative stream undertaken. For this Gallery some have
submitted works from one or more other artistic endeavours they’ve engaged with on or following the program.
