In 2018, Red Room Poetry along with Illawarra Multicultural Services Wollongong collaborated to deliver Refugee Week workshops to students from Wollongong Primay School (13 June) and Wollongong West Primay School (15 June). The workshops allowed English as a Second Language (ESL) students from refugee backgrounds in Years 3-12 to create poetry about treasured objects as a part of Red Room Poetry’s competition, Poetry Object.

Poetry Object is open to all students years 3-10 in Australia and New Zealand. The poems from the workshop will be published on the Red Room Poetry website and will be performed at Town Hall, Wollongong on 20 June 2018.