Fuel Up! - an online workshop with Naomi Shihab Nye
Fuel Up!
An online workshop with Naomi Shihab Nye
DATE: Saturday 21 October 10am-12pm AEST
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
Exploring our resistances and roadblocks to writing, if any, and encouraging methods and strategies for creating more positive energy in our writing lives. Where does our work come from? How do we stimulate more of it? What are some positive practices? We will share poems, discuss experiences, suggest curatives, and do some writing on the spot (then sharing, optional).
Open to everybody. I love use of the chat bar, for anyone who doesn’t wish to speak a lot.
Please bring a poem written by someone else that has given you fuel somewhere along the way, even when you were a child. Look forward to seeing you!
- Naomi Shihab Nye
Learning outcomes
Participants will be encouraged to explore methods and strategies for creating more positive energy in their writing lives.
Participants will gain an understanding of where their work comes from and how they can stimulate more of it.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection.
• Please bring a poem written by someone else that has given you fuel somewhere along the way.
This workshop is:
Open to everybody.
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession/unwaged ($30) to full/waged ($40) to generous supporter ($50), i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she continues to live. She has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world. Her books include Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air, Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, This Same Sky, & The Tree is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Turtle of Oman and The Turtle of Michigan have both been part of the Little Read program, North Carolina. She received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters and the National Book Critics Circle.
Naomi Shihab Nye - Poet in Residence reading
Watch a captivating poetry reading by Naomi Shihab Nye, our Arts Queensland Poet in Digital Residence.
Premiering on Facebook Live and YouTube on Monday 4 September 2023 at 6pm AEST.
Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she continues to live. She has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world.
Watch on Facebook.
Watch on YouTube.
(NO TICKET NEEDED. Just tune in on 4 September 6pm AEST!)