Join award-winning poet and novelist Sara M Saleh on this unique, practice-based course designed to build up a collection of poems that draw directly from the fragments of your own memory and personal experiences.
This course is fully online and self-paced. Start and finish whenever is convenient to you!
Poetry has long been a portal for writers: a way to hold and shape memory, a way to make sense of the world, and sometimes to articulate things that feel unable to be expressed in other forms. Through a series of carefully curated writing exercises, readings and lessons, you will craft during this course a suite of poems that are both deeply personal and powerfully resonant, as well as taking significant steps towards prospective publication.
This course is online and self-paced. Start and finish whenever is convenient for you!
By the end of Writing Poetry through Memory you will have:
- An entire toolkit of approaches to help you return to memory through poetry again and again
- Techniques to assist you imaginatively in finding the fragments and images that spark a poem
- 6–8 individual, well-refined poems that are held in dialogue with one another
- Developed practical strategies to edit, sequence and refine your poetry until you have a small body of work that feels whole and intentional
- Gained insights from your tutor's own writing practice, as well as examples from other poets using memoir
- A brand new selection of poems for submissions to magazines or competitions, and/or a foundation for a larger collection
Members receive 10% off all courses. Not a member yet? Become a member here, or contact [email protected] for more information.
Welcome to Writing Memoir through Poetry
A few words from your teacher, Sara M Saleh
Meet Your Teacher: Sara M Saleh
Sara M Saleh is a writer/poet, human rights lawyer and the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants based on Bidjigal land. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published widely, and she is co-editor of the ground-breaking 2019 anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity. Her first novel is Songs for the Dead and the Living, and her first full-length poetry collection is The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat, both released late 2023. Sara is the first and only poet to win both the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
Meet Your School: Kill Your Darlings
Founded in 2010, Kill Your Darlings (KYD) is one of Australia’s most trusted independent literary organisations. As well as writing courses, KYD also runs several writing awards and provides professional editorial services such as mentorships and manuscript assessments. To take full advantage of all KYD's opportunities, services and generous discounts, please consider becoming a member today.
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