Writing the Verse Memoir Workshop - Magdalena Ball

Verse is a particularly powerful form for the memoir, because of the way it allows you to engage with what’s missing or can not be known, compress time, use rhythm, visual imagery, and sound to get at emotive, multiple truths, missing or imagined information, and immerse the reading into the heart of experience. This hands-on workshop is for all writers who want to explore an historical story through poetry. We will explore process, using memory, finding, and using primary and secondary source material, style, and voice choices, creating an arc, and lots more. You will leave this workshop with several of your own poems and new ways of engaging with the past.

Part of the Write Here Festival 2024. Full program details here

$40.00 plus booking fee

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Magdalena Ball was born in New York City, where she grew up. After gaining an honours degree in English Literature from the City University of New York (CCNY), she moved to Oxford to study English Literature at a postgraduate level. After a brief return to the US, she migrated to NSW Australia, where she now resides on a rural property with her family. While in Australia she obtained additional post-graduation qualifications in Business, Marketing and Sustainability. Magdalena runs the respected review site and podcast Compulsive Reader. Her editorials, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction.