Voice Renewed: Women’s Poetry Group
Last year, in partnership with Cumberland Women’s Health, the ‘Writing Your Voice’ poetry group published a collection of poems, which was published into a book, “Apples: An Unapologetic Anthology from the Core”.
This year, we are pleased to announce that Cumberland Women’s Health Centre and WestWords will be returning with, “Voice Renewed: Women’s Poetry Group”.
This could be a chance for you to learn new ways of expressing emotion through poetry. It could also be an opportunity to become a published author!
This program will be running on Wednesdays, 10am-12pm, from:
July 24 to September 11.
It will be located at the WestWords Centre for Writing, 41 Hunter Street Parramatta.
Program Facilitators
Michele Seminar is a respected Sydney-based poet, writer, essayist, editor, speaker and moderator. Her writing has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has published two full-length collections, Suburban Fantasy (UWA Publishing, 2021) and Engraft (Island Press, 2016), as well as two chapbooks, Scar to Scar (written with Robbie Coburn, PressPress, 2016) and HUSH (Blank Rune Press, 2017).
Julia Ellis is a counsellor at Cumberland Women’s Health Centre. CWHC supports women and non-binary folk in the Cumberland-Parramatta LGAs who are responding to marginalisation, gender-based violence and wellbeing issues. Julia has experience working in schools, independent practice and private mental health. She is passionate about intersectional / abolitionist feminism, creative therapies and anti-oppressive approaches to mental health.