Navigating grief and loss in writing
Facilitated by international visiting author Tamarin Norwood
Key Information
When: Saturday 11 April, 10 am — 12 pm
Venue: Charlestown Library
Cnr Smith St & Ridley St, Charlestown NSW 2290
Cost:
Full Price: $35
Member: $20
Youth/Students: $20
* Hunter Writers Centre defines youth as someone aged 25 years or under.
Workshop Overview
Dr Tamarin Norwood, author of The Song of the Whole Wide World, will run a workshop on writing about birth, loss and bereavement. How do we find the words to share and explore such complex emotions? How does ‘Life Writing’ allow space to provide guidelines for individuals to navigate birth, birthing or death in scholarship or life? Tamarin will give a short reading and share writing exercises to explore these ideas. Open to beginner and experienced writers.
Accessibility
Charlestown Library has ramp access as well as an accessible toilet.
Accessible parking is available in the public car park adjacent to the building.
Getting There
Bus Services: Several bus routes service the Newcastle area. For specific routes and timetables, refer to Newcastle Transport’s official website. Newcastle Transport
By Car: There is public carpark next door to the venue, as well as street parking available.
About Dr Tamarin Norwood
Dr Tamarin Norwood is an author and academic with a background in fine art. Her literary memoir of neonatal loss The Song of the Whole Wide World (2024) is part of medical and midwifery curricula in the UK and Australia, and her writing on grief and bereavement has been published widely, including in The Independent, The Sunday Times, and The Lancet in which her essay ‘Something Good Enough’ won the 2021 Wakley Essay Prize. As an academic, Tamarin is an Associate Editor at BMJ group journal Medical Humanities and a Leverhulme Fellow researching how families create meaning when grieving reproductive loss. She holds visiting and honorary posts at the Wellcome Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, the University of Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, the University of Bath Centre for Death and Society, and the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, Finland. She gained her DPhil (PhD) in Fine Art as a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2019, and now lives with her family in rural Yorkshire, England.