Finding the Writer’s Voice (Jul 2025)
October 4 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
$240
a four-week workshop for writers seeking clear intention
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What is the story within you that keeps running into roadblocks, whenever you try to bring it into fuller expression? Is there a deeper truth beneath it that is asking to be seen?
This four-week workshop aims to help you get in touch with, recognise, and develop your unique writing voice. Whether you are a beginner writer, or an experienced writer looking for a fresh approach towards your craft, this workshop aims to help you achieve greater clarity and purpose in your work.
During the workshop, participants have the option to submit up to six pages of creative work for detailed individual feedback.
This workshop is open to writers of poetry, prose and creative nonfiction.
Dates (1st Run): 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th Jul 2025, OR
Dates (2nd Run): 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th Dec 2025
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm on Saturdays
Location: Online on Zoom.
Sign up at https://www.rainbowfictioneers.com/writersvoice
Reduced fees are available for students, as well as for those in need of financial assistance; please email rainbowfictioneers@gmail.com to find out more.
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Workshop Outline
Session #1 | The Writer’s Voice – What does it mean for a writer to have a “voice”?
Session #2 | The Politics of Voice – Whose voices are heard most often, and most loudly, in the systems we inhabit? Whose voices hold weight?
Session #3 | The Responsibility of Voice – How do we use our voices responsibly? Who and what are we responsible 𝘵𝘰?
Session #4 | The Freedom of Voice – What is your voice at its best and strongest?
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About the Facilitator
Stacy Ooi is editor of Voyage: A Literary Journal, and founder of the Rainbow Fictioneers, a literary platform based in Singapore. Her poetry has been published in Blue Heron Review, and the tide rises, the tide falls. Her fiction is published in Blue Daisies Journal, and forthcoming in CALYX Journal. She dreams of a world where we are gentle with each other.
