Creative Writing Workshop with Sue Gunningham

How has your cultural heritage changed you?

Each person is born into a culture and a community, a group of people with shared history, spaces and language. Cultural heritage influences how you think, understand and communicate with each other. It provides your sense of identity and belonging and can evoke strong emotions, memories and a sense of connection.

During this workshop you will be invited to draw on the rhythms, sounds and imagery of your cultural heritage to create unique, authentic characters and settings that are evocative and memorable. How has your cultural heritage changed you and shaped your life?

Write a story rich in meaning with the support of expert local writer, Sue Gunningham. Her articles, poems, short stories and monologues have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Sue regularly delivers workshops and author talks across Victoria.

Her personal passion is memoir writing and Sue’s had two full length memoirs published n – All the days After in 2015 and Waldene: Love in the Shadows in 2020. She is currently working on a third memoir about growing up in the melting pot of Northcote in the 1950s.

This workshop is an official event in the 2026 National Trust Australian Heritage Festival. The theme for 2026 is Change. Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum is delighted to participate again in this wonderful nationwide heritage festival.