Selina Tusitala Marsh tells a story about her own journey as a writer.
One Tuesday in May this year, a group of academics and students spent their lunchtime break learning about finding their voice in writing, with the help of poet-scholar Selina Tusitala Marsh. Selina shared some reflections on what she learnt from attending voice lessons with coach Sylvia Rands (who facilitated the first Finding Your Voice Workshop earlier in the year. Insights gained from voice coaching work were combined with Selina’s own journey as an academic, writer and poet, particularly in reference to the genre of creative non-fiction. Workshop participants learnt about the importance of telling a story and ‘inserting the I’ into their own texts, other exercises included: writing operating instructions from God for how to operate a heart. In the context of He Vaka Moana, Selina’s workshop was particularly telling as it stressed the importance of writers from this part of the weaving their own narratives within pre-existing structures of poetry and academic writing.
More information on the first workshop in this series can be found here.
Finding your voice II
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