The Velvet Room
Poetry Workshop with Shastra Deo

Free Entry
Monday 25 March, 6pm - 7:30pm
Hyphenated Projects, 8 Armour Ct, Sunshine West

Welcome to the Velvet Room, a generative workshop fusing tarot and persona, where different forms of people's hearts are called to awaken. Join us at the next lunar eclipse, together we will write the beginnings of poems that dwell between dream and reality, mind and matter.

Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone (UQP 2023), is a love letter to all gamers. Shastra is the Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellow 2024.