Recharge Your Poetry Practice with Felicity Plunkett

Recharge your poetry practice! In this five-week masterclass you’ll have the opportunity to read a lot, write a lot, receive written and verbal feedback, explore a trove of original prompts and diverse forms, explore and enhance aspects of your creative practice and have a one-to-one consultation about your work.

Dates: 6:00-8:00pm (AEST) Thursdays October 1, 8, 15 and 29, 2026
Delivery: Online
Fees: $795 or $745 for Varuna Alumni
Applications close: 5pm (AEST) 26 August 2026
Places: 8 participants will be selected (small group)

Recharge your poetry in this five-week intensive with Felicity Plunkett. New work inspired by prompts and exercises and weekly readings will be shared with the group for suggestions and feedback, and each writer will have opportunities in class and online for feedback from Felicity and the group.

Each writer will also have a 30 minute one-to-one session with Felicity, focused on their work.

This online masterclass is filled with prompts and possibilities to start new poems. We’ll create an encouraging and inspiring community to support the creation and development of original work so you finish the course with new drafts, new ideas and directions, and renewed enthusiasm.

Each week will begin with a presentation sharing prompts, forms and ways into new poems.

These will relate to a treasury of online materials and links. The course will introduce a unique range of materials informed by Felicity’s expertise as a writer, editor and educator, and will include sustenance for your creative practice and opportunities for each poet’s work to receive some close feedback. The course aims to offer an array of possibilities, so workshop feedback by Felicity and peers will be succinct, unlike the more concentrated work in From Poem to Manuscript.

If you are a poet who has done this program before and are keen to apply again please feel free to contact [email protected] to discuss whether the program will be suitable for what you need.