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Open Poetry Courses
Persist to Resist
Persist to Resist with Tusiata Avia and ArunDitha Stand up, rise up, and speak up. In this defiant chorus of words, two poets enter the heart of resistance poetry to nullify silence and defy stagnation. In a world that demands us to accept its vested narrative, our...
Writer To Writer with Tusiata Avia
Share your ideas, gain fresh insights. Book a one-on-one mentoring session with poet Tusiata Avia to receive expert guidance on your writing project and support for your writing journey.
Poetry Body Building with Tusiata Avia
Poetry Body Building with Tusiata Avia Longing for a strong poetic body? Run, jump and lift real weight. Work out your poetic practice. Go beyond the basics to build your poetry writing and editing muscles with poet Tusiata Avia. In this call to courage, strengthen...
Completed Courses
Writing Chinese Poetry
In this four-week Foundation to Intermediate course, Professor HuaiChen Wu offers an encouraging and informative workshop to help writers write their own poetry in the Chinese language. This course will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.
Introduction to Chinese Creative Writing
This is a 13-weeks semester-long course for NTU undergraduates. This course aims to broaden your knowledge of various genres in literature and techniques of creative writing, which includes fiction, prose and poetry, etc. This course will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.
Writer to Writer with HuaiChen Wu
Book a one-on-one mentoring session with Professor HuaiChen Wu to discuss your writing project. Professor HuaiChen Wu will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life. These sessions will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.
Invitation & Inquiry: A Revision-Centred Poetry Workshop with Chen Chen
Designed for intermediate to advanced poets, this course is rooted in serious engagement with participants’ work in progress. Generative writing prompts will be shared, so you will also have the chance to create new work during this period.
Webinar on Contemporary Tamil Poetry for English-Language Poets
This course will explore a broad selection of modern Tamil poems so you can acquire in-depth knowledge regarding the literary aesthetics, style and techniques employed in Tamil poetry. This course is designed for English language poets to understand more about Tamil poetry to help enrich their English language poetry.
சமகாலத் தமிழ்க் கவிதை Contemporary Tamil Poetry
This course will explore a broad selection of modern Tamil poems so you can acquire in-depth knowledge regarding the literary aesthetics, style and techniques employed in Tamil poetry. Beginning and emerging Tamil writers will enrich and rework their poems, and also attempt bold new experimentation. This course will be conducted in Tamil.
Writer to Writer with Perundevi Srinivasan
Book a one-on-one mentoring session to discuss your writing project. Find guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.
Advanced Poetry Course
In this eight‐week masterclass series, Mary Jean Chan will introduce you to some of the most exciting voices in contemporary Anglophone poetry.
Advanced Poetry Critique Workshop
A workshop involving intensive critique to help intermediate and advanced poets develop their craft, with peer and facilitator critique of participants’ poems.