In this workshop, we reflect on our specific relationships with stone to generate new writing. How can paying attention to stone add depth and detail to our stories? How do stone's processes enable us to write organic, non-linear time? And what emotions can be released in our writing when we treat stone as living and animating? You will come away with new ideas, stories, and/or poems, exercises for thinking and writing earth's sacred matter, and a renewed appreciation for the life and wonders of stone.

Your facilitator 

Nadia Rhook is a non-Indigenous historian and poet with expertise on histories of migration, colonialism and medicine in 19th Century Victoria, and the author of two history-themed poetry collections: boots (2020), and Second Fleet Baby(2022). You can also find her writing in Cordite Poetry, Mascara Review, Portside Review, Westerly, The Mantle Poetry, What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, Australian Poetry Journal’s 2022 and 2024 Best of Australian Poems, and the newly released Women of a Certain Courage.

With over two decades of experience as a teacher and mentor, Nadia has delivered poetry and creative writing workshops for various public and student audiences, including the Perth Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Western Australian Poets Inc., Sonic Poetry Festival (Naarm), and as a former lecturer in History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Nadia loves the simultaneous strength and softness of water. In Second Fleet Baby, she connects with a convict ancestor who gave birth during the passage from England to Eora land; an ancestor who ‘held the ocean in one corner of her mind while dragging life from the seabed to the surface with the other’.

COST: $44 - https://events.humanitix.com/the-power-of-stone/tickets

ACCESSIBILITY: ONLINE EVENT