Workshops and courses for poets and writers
Come and write with me! Creative writing is fun. In my classes there’s no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ writing, no judgment, assessment or competition — just encouragement, inspiring writing experiments and easy-to-understand information.
Adult education — Community groups — Private lessons — School groups (years 4 to 12)
Poetry writing — Poetry appreciation — Performance — Editing — Creative writing — Critiquing — Publishing
Workshops available
- ‘Expand your boundaries’: Leap or tiptoe out of your poetic comfort zone in a supportive group environment. Let Janet’s writing experiments lead you to write in new ways. Look at example poems and discuss how form can create feeling. 2-5 hours.
- ‘Perennially Popular Poetry’: It’s often said that poets today are writing for each other — but what if we want to capture the imagination of those who are not poets, critics or students? Learn what it takes to write a great poem, and maybe come away with some of your own. 2-5 hours.
- ‘Poetry alive’: performance for teens and adults. Half or full day.
- ‘Poets and poems here and now!’: participative poetry for kids in years 4-6 or 7-9. Students express themselves with fun writing activities and learn by example that contemporary Australians of all ages are writing poems. 1 hour.
- A custom workshop to suit your needs.
Courses available
- Contemporary Poetry Writing. 7 weeks.
- ‘Expand your boundaries’ experimental creative writing. 7 weeks.
- ‘Develop, improve, publish’: further skills in creative writing. 7 weeks. For those with some experience.
- A custom course to suit your needs. Previous students have enjoyed courses in poetry appreciation, zine making, performance writing and literacy through poetry.
Unless otherwise indicated, all my workshops and courses are suitable for beginning writers and those with some experience.
How much?
- Community groups: talk to me
- Courses and series: talk to me
- School incursions: from $100 per hour
- Private lessons: $40 per hour
