RABBIT WORKSHOPS

During 2025 and 2026, Rabbit will be offering a suite of free online workshops for poets to explore, develop and refine their 'nonfiction poetry' skills. The first of these workshops was themed ‘History/Biography’ and run by Rabbit editor Jessica Wilkinson and the second was themed ‘Childhood’ and run by poet Anders Villani (now closed for applications).

We are now open for applications for our third workshop, details below:

Rabbit: A Nonfiction Poetry Workshop no. 3: Feral/Mutant

Workshop no. 3: Feral/Mutant will be run by Bonny Cassidy on FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER, 1pm-4pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

FERAL/MUTANT will uncover your inner pest. We’ll look at examples of nonfiction poetry exploring species introduction, metamorphosis and the frankly unacceptable. Then generate a draft of your own using prompts designed to release and contain. We’re all in this together.

Participants will also have the opportunity to send one poem to the facilitator after the workshop for some light feedback.

As places are limited to 20, we ask that you submit the following as your Expression of Interest* via this link:
1. A statement of 100 words or less telling us why you want to take this workshop and what you hope to get out of it
2. A bio of 50 words or less, telling us about yourself as a writer

DEADLINE for EOI: Friday 10th October 2025

We will notify applicants within two weeks of the closing deadline.

A note on the workshop facilitator:

Sustained by the woodland ecology of Dja Dja Wurrung Djandak, Bonny Cassidy’s award-winning work includes art writing, nature writing, poetry and nonfiction. As well as her own creative methods, she brings extensive teaching and facilitation experience including non-profit creative writing workshops for private groups and general community, schools, art museums and festivals, as well as 15 years as an awarded Creative Writing lecturer and internationally published researcher of Australian Literature. Bonny holds a PhD (Literature) and Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours (Creative Writing), and is an Honorary Fellow at RMIT University and member of its non/fictionLab research group. She is also a creative youth mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

With thanks to Creative Australia for generously supporting Rabbit's new phase of publishing and workshop activities.