Memory to Story: Migration and Exile

In this three-hour writing workshop, participants learn how to deconstruct the lived experiences of migration and exile, whether painful or joyful, into smaller emotional and narrative elements.

Your tutor will introduce practical techniques to enhance creative writing and visualisation that will help you explore how these personal experiences can be interwoven with history, geography, politics, or philosophy, and poetry. This approach allows each story to acquire social and literary depth. Ultimately, participants will discover how to find their own authentic voice and perspective, developing a unique literary narrative.

Tutor Shokoofeh Azar is an Iranian-Australian journalist and writer who sought asylum in Australia in 2010 after being imprisoned for her work in Iran.