Creative responses to 1915, and remembrance of World War 1 impacts, can take many forms. Try one of the following as a starting point:
- Write a short story (even a mini one-pager can have impact and meaning)
- Describe your local community's experience – at war or home front
- Draw a Time Line to help lay out details and chronology for a memoir
- Travel back to your family origins - write on where they were in 1915
- Write a poem in response to a painting or photograph from 1915
- Investigate and write about songs about 1915, war and home experience
- Research or design a poster about 1915 – write about its origins
- Read letters and diaries from 1915; write of their meaning for today
- Write a short poem (a haiku is only 3 lines) - distil insight for impact
- Write about what you wish for, how understanding post-1915 helps
- Reflect on indigenous writing and experience of 1915 and since
- Find a hand-written letter from past war experience – write about it
- Investigate Australia's poets and writers pre-1915 and what they wrote
- Find an artefact from 1915 and write about its origins and meaning today
- Read and respond to current news items and commentary on 1915
- Reflect on, and write a memoir of, a person you know from WW1 era
- Talk to and write of people who have been in war or peace negotiations
- Write a review of a 1915 remembrance event and your response to it
- Find out and write about those involved in 1915 war and peace actions
- Find and describe writing in other languages, other countries on 1915
- Dig beneath the legends of 1915 - find actual experience, photos
- Write on the work of an artist or writer who survived or died in WW1
- Design a cartoon message about post-1915 - picture plus "balloon" text
- Look at and write about the context of a drawing, cartoon or poster of 1915
Have a look at the examples of works for ideas and inspiration.
You can also contact us to get some initial advice or to find out about writing groups or upcoming workshops that may be of interest.
