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Presented in partnership with Writers Victoria, Writeability aims to provide people who identify as disabled with opportunities to connect with writing and publishing.
When was the last time you wrote something for the fun of it? Do you ever get stuck in a creative rut, or stifled by the fear of writing ‘badly’?
Presented in partnership with Writers Victoria’s Writeability program and guided by writer, artist and editor Alex Creece, this workshop will equip participants with strategies to find and cultivate creative inspiration, use games and prompts to tackle writers’ block, and hone their unique authorial voices.
In a gentle and supportive environment, participants of all abilities and experience levels can enjoy the process of exploring new techniques, following their creative intuition and freeing themselves of perfectionism and self-judgment.
Writeability aims to provide people who identify as disabled with opportunities to connect with writing and publishing. Based on the ethos of disability leadership, peer-support and the importance of self-told stories, Writeability provides tools and information to support disabled writers who want to tell their own stories in their own way.
You will learn:
About the presenter
Alex Creece is writer, editor, poet, collage artist, and average kook living on Wadawurrung land. Alex works in editorial roles for Archer Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and Sunder Journal, and her writing has been widely published. She has been awarded fellowships with Writers Victoria, Arts Access Australia, The Wheeler Centre and Midsumma Pathways. Her work has been shortlisted for the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Next Chapter Scheme, the Geelong Writers Prize, the Born Writers Award, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award. Alex is the author of Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth (Cordite Books, 2024), which was a highly commended runner-up in the Five Islands Poetry Prize.
Tickets
Tickets $40 or $20 for concession card holders
Accessibility
We are dedicated to providing events that are inclusive and that respect our community’s diversity.
The event space is fully accessible by wheelchair (via large lift), and there is a Changing Places accredited toilet facility located on the ground floor. Wayfinding signage is available in Braille, and customers with hearing aids can switch on ‘T’ (Telecoil) mode and tune into any amplified source in the room’s inbuilt AV system. Quiet spaces are also available. An AUSLAN interpreter can be provided on request.
You can view further information about the accessibility features at the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre here.
If you need any assistance in order to participate in this event, please contact events@grlc.vic.gov.au at least two weeks prior to the event date.
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Image credit: Bakri Mahmoud
| Mon, Feb 16 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Tue, Feb 17 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Wed, Feb 18 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Feb 19 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Fri, Feb 20 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Sat, Feb 21 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
| Sun, Feb 22 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
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