Bendigo Writers Council

BWC Writers Explore February

BWC Writers Explore February – Writing Through Grief and
Transformation with Amanda Anastasi

Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet published in journals both locally and internationally, including Best of Australian Poems 2025, Best Australian Science Writing, Australian Poetry Journal, Griffith Review and The Massachusetts Review, among other places. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and Poet in Residence for three years at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research (Monash CliComm). She was recently commissioned by DFAT’s Climate Change Diplomacy Branch to write a poem for COP30 Brazil.

Amanda’s poetry books are The Inheritors (Black Pepper, 2021) and Taking Apart the Bird Trap (Recent Work Press, 2024), which was a collection written in response to the sudden loss of her father. Last year, Amanda facilitated several Writing Through Grief workshops, aimed at using writing to process grief and create surprising new art from the experience of loss.

Amanda is the curator/host of La Mama Poetica at La Mama Theatre and is on the committees of the Williamstown Literary Festival and Sonic Poetry Festival.

When: 7–9 pm, Wednesday 25 February 2026

Bring pens and paper and be inspired.

Cost: $10

Where: Bendigo Library, Activity Room 1, 259 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo