Writing Through Grief Workshop

Much has been said about the therapeutic power of writing in helping process grief, heartbreak and loss. This workshop will provide you with poetic inspiration and guide you through a series of writing exercises, helping you articulate your unique grief journey and explore past memories in a new way.Join award-winning writer Amanda Anastasi in this workshop for writers of all levels, including beginners. Whether you are missing an deceased person, a relationship, a lost place, or an old version of yourself, Amanda will help you use writing to process and express your unique grief experience.This three-hour workshop will be covering:

• Writing the experience of grief
• Saying the unsaid things
• Recording memories and stories
• Grief as an enriching & learning experience

This is a welcoming and safe space where you are given the option to respond to the writing prompts quietly and/or to share your work with the group. In this class, you are writing for yourself and no one else. You will be surprised by the lines, ideas and stories that will come...! Join us.Venue: Kathleen Syme Library & Community Centre, Meeting Room 3.Amanda Anastasi is the author of 'The Inheritors' (Black Pepper, 2021) and 'Taking Apart the Bird Trap' (Recent Work Press, 2024), which she wrote following the sudden passing of her father and was launched at Readings in Melbourne. She has since facilitated Writing Through Grief workshops at the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival, Cafe Philosophique and Bendigo Writer's Council. Amanda's writing has been published locally and internationally, including in Best of Australian Poems 2025, Griffith Review and The Massachusetts Review.

• A writing notebook
• A pdf workshop guide
• Light nibbles during the break

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