ExpiredWhere we Belong: Writing about Food and Place

What does home mean to you? A kitchen, a coastline, an urban landscape? How does our sense of belonging shift and change over time? In this workshop we will examine the relationship between memory and belonging through writing about food and place. We will consider how ‘nature writing’ can encompass all kinds of writing about all kinds of landscapes – human and nonhuman, urban and rural, personal and communal – and writing and zinemaking as means of resistance and claiming space. In the second half of the workshop, participants will learn how to make their own mini zine.

This workshop is suitable for writers of all levels working in poetry or prose. You may choose to use the workshop exercises to focus on your chosen genre, or feel free to discard the limits of form.

We will read a range of extracts, both poetry and prose, that examine food, memory, migration and place, including Michelle Zauner, Rebecca May Johnson, Jennifer Wong, Annie Dillard, Larissa Pham and others.

Limit of 12 participants. Please fill out this form to apply for a scholarship

Please note: In the event that the workshop is unable to be held face-to-face the workshop will be offered in an online format. This will be on the same dates as advertised unless an alternative date is specified. Please note that the online offering of the workshop may be shorter – or in a slightly different format.