Vanessa Goodwin Room, The Hedberg, University of Tasmania 19-27 Campbell Street Hobart, TAS 7000
Summary:Hedberg Writer in Residence 2023 - Community Workshop
Presenter(s):
- Michelle Cahill
Hedberg Writer in Residence 2023 - Community Workshop
POETRY AND SHORT PROSE MASTERCLASS
In this masterclass you will learn skills to enhance your enjoyment of writing and editing poems and short prose. How do we write about everyday living, using random facts, ancillaries, streams of consciousness, impressions that float and fly, lists, footnotes and snippets? How does poetic language address/embody subjects like relationships, climate, physical needs or the natural world? There is handout for the masterclass with poems and short prose by Australian and US writers on the themes of food, water, skin.
We will consider image, tone, syntax, real time elements, the lyric pulse and narrative logic as well as some more experimental features. Overall, these skills support a deeper engagement with writing texts in the lyric and prose form preparing writers to gain confidence and deepen the enjoyment of writing.
Hedberg Writer in Residence Program
Michelle Cahill is the third Hedberg Writer in Residence with the residency open to all established writers with professional publication record, in any field or genre, and being resident in Australia.
The residency is offered by the College of Arts, Law and Education and the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. The project is supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund.
The successful writer devotes three months to writing in a quiet but stimulating environment, in the University of Tasmania's campuses. During the residency, as well as working on an original piece, the winner will engage with the University's creative writing students, emerging Tasmanian authors, and the broader Tasmanian creative community through a small number of workshops, masterclasses, and public talks in the state.
Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill is an Australian novelist and poet of Indian heritage. Her short story collection, Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo) was awarded the NSW Premier's Literary Award for New Writing, shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Award and longlisted in the ALS Gold Medal. Her novel Daisy & Woolf is longlisted in the ALS Gold Medal. She has been shortlisted in the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, and received the Val Vallis Award and a Red Room Poetry Fellowship. In 2023 she takes up the Hedberg Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tasmania.
