Are you an experienced poet looking for opportunities to network, connect and take your work to the next level? Perhaps you’re an emerging poet looking for guidance.
Dr Victoria Kennefick is available for a limimited number of 30 minute consults during her stay. These will be allocated on a first-in-first-served basis. So book in quickly. Consults are a membership benefit.
What now? What next? Edit? Publish? Courses?
Get yourself a one-on-one Consult with a team member at Queensland Writers Centre and walk away with three solid recommendations tailored to your specific project to move your writing forward.
Exclusively available to members and designed for writers at any stage, Consults are the perfect tool to access insights, point you in the right direction and keep up the momentum on your writing journey. You’ll also receive a helpful Consult report and a follow-up email to see how your work is progressing.
Available in-person and online via Zoom. Please note Consults do not include pre-reading of your writing.
About Victoria
Dr Victoria Kennefick is a writer, poet, editor and teacher. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. Her second collection, Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press, 2024) was a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2024 and BBC Poetry Extra Book of the Month for March as well as a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The Poetry Society UK. She completed a PhD in Irish and American Literature at University College Cork and was a Fulbright Scholar at Emory University. She was Poet in Residence of the Yeats Society Sligo 2022, Arts Council/University College Dublin Writer in Residence 2023 and Cork County Council Writer in Residence 2024. She is the 2025 Arts Council of Ireland/Trinity College Dublin Writer Fellow.Laurel Cohn is a book editor passionate about communication and the power of stories in our lives. As a developmental editor and writing coach she has been helping writers prepare their work for publication for over three decades, and is a popular workshop presenter. Laurel has a PhD in literary and cultural studies.
For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info