Writing an Interior Monologue.
Kim Nielsen-Creeley
In this workshop Kim Nielsen-Creeley will lead a group of up to 14 participants in sharing and reading examples of poetry developed through an interior monologue, a narrative style of writing. The group will discuss the differences between interior monologue and stream of consciousness, then engage in some writing exercises to work towards and/or create a poem.
Internal monologues can be used to create work that writes the interior world of the poet or the imagined interior world of another. A character’s thoughts are represented, the reader ‘listens in’. This style can be created in the first or third person.
Kim Nielsen-Creeley was born in Queenstown, a mining town in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her poems have a keen sense of place, responding to landscape and history. Kim was recently long listed for the Tim Thorne Poetry Prize 2025 where she was highly commended by the judges.
Date: Thursday 9 October 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC+10)
Location: Launceston Library – High Street Centre
8 High St, Launceston Tasmania Get directions
Constraint Based Writing.
Alex McKeown
In this workshop we will place constraints on our writing to spark creativity, unlocking new ideas by turning our writing into a puzzle to be solved. Many artists have found that the more barriers they face, the more creative and interesting their solutions become, so let’s put up our own barriers, and see how we get around them.
A constraint can be used to form an entire work, from a little haiku to a long novel, or used as a temporary trick to fire up our inspiration and get us writing freely.
This will be a practical workshop where we create new works on the fly. We will put aside our critical and editing minds to revel in whatever surprises we manage to produce.
Date: Thursday 9 October 2025 12.30 PM – 2:00 PM (UTC+10)
Location: Launceston Library – High Street Centre
8 High St, Launceston Tasmania Get directions
The Peripatetic Mode; Taking your words for a walk.
Christopher “Kit” Kelen
Poetry is both speech and written word. The distinction has been divisive in recent times, but the best poetry on paper does have a pulse and makes use of the breath. Likewise the best spoken word will fare beautifully on paper, where the head has more time to take it in. Poetry works when it takes words where they haven’t been, somewhere interesting and unexpected.
One of Kit’s several modes of gathering materials for the making of poems is writing while walking. Observations collected on the way help to situate your work in a here and now. Writing while walking is also an infallible cure for so-called writer’s block because there is always something to observe, through your senses! The peripatetic mode brings poetry production out of the closet and into the public domain, In this workshop, we will go somewhere on foot to gather lines or ideas, and then return to base, to share them, and to see if there aren’t some poems to be made out of the materials we’ve found.
Date: Friday 10 October 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC+10)
Location: Launceston Library – High Street Centre
8 High St, Launceston Tasmania Get directions
Plan to be Published; Strategies for polishing your work and getting it published.
Les Wicks
You’ve worked hard, those poems of yours deserve a wider audience. This workshop will give you a down to earth set of strategies for polishing your work and getting it published. There will be a handout detailing a range of poetry outlets. Everyone who so wishes will have their poems published in an established internet magazine. Friendly, energetic, practical.
Les Wicks has been published across 39 countries in 17 languages. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). Well-known as both an editor & workshop facilitator. He can be found at leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm
Date: Friday 10 October 2025 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM (UTC+10)
Location: Launceston Library
71 Civic Square, Launceston Tasmania
8 High St, Launceston Tasmania Get directions