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Kim Sargent-Wishart - Ecosystems in Creative Writing

Local Word Writers Festival

This immersive workshop invites you to explore the ecosystems of both the body and the natural world as inspiration for creative writing.

Imagining Ecosystems in Creative Writing

Through guided visualization and gentle movement, you’ll tune into the body’s inner, cellular landscape as a source of vivid imagery and imaginative attention.

Your inner experience then meets the outer world as we work with photographs of local environments and books from the library’s collection. These visual prompts open new pathways for writing about ecosystems—real, remembered, or entirely imagined.

This workshop includes movement, visualization, writing time, and an optional opportunity to share your work aloud. We will expand the experience with time outdoors to observe and photograph the local landscape. You’ll return with your own images to use as creative prompts, and you’ll leave with a short written piece or poem inspired by your explorations.

This workshop is ideal for anyone interested in poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction, and for writers of all experience levels who want to deepen their connection to place, imagination, and the living systems around and within us.

This workshop is available for up to 20 people aged 18+ who are interested in exploring writing in a variety of styles, but especially poetry and creative fiction/non-fiction. Please note there is no catering provided but participants are welcome to bring their own drinks and snacks.

Ticket prices: $40 or $20 for concession holders. 

Kim Sargent-Wishart is an artist, researcher and educator living on Wadawurrung Country, Bellarine Peninsula with an interest in living ecosystems, both inner and outer. She specializes in somatic movement and dance education, embodied anatomy, somatic writing, contemplative photography and dance improvisation. Through online and in-person workshops, Kim creates generous and generative spaces for moving, thinking and collaboration. She is the co-editor of The Art of Embodiment (2021), and is self-publishing In Circulation, a series of field guides for creative practice.
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To discover more of our fabulous local writers, visit our Local Authors Fair from 12pm-3pm on Saturday 29 August at Geelong Library & Heritage Centre - free entry and refreshments provided

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