Over a 10 week period, 25 young emerging writers from Western Sydney participated in an intensive program of workshops and mentoring, led by Winnie Dunn and Shirley Le from Sweatshop Literacy Movement. These participants reviewed plays, exhibits and festivals, and were provided with editorial feedback along the way. Their works have now appeared in publications like Running Dog, The Big Issue, Books + Publishing, The Saturday Paper, Audrey Journal, and Kill Your Darlings. In 2021 the cohort will continue to undertake their commissions and will undergo further training with editor Camha Pham.
He swerves out of my way, holding up his arms over his head, waving his white t-shirt in his hand like a flag. Granules of blond sand flake off his […]
It had been less than twenty four hours prior to Darlinghurst Theatre opening their auditorium doors that so-called Australia rejoiced their genocidal colonial canon on the 26th. During her idiomatic […]
Review of Black BrassBelvoir TheatreBy Mararo Wangai6-23 January On Thursday night, I sat amongst friends whose families are from Haiti, Namibia and Zimbabwe while we watched Black Brass, a 70-minute […]
I stand face to face with the sandstone façade of the Art Gallery of New South Wales with my pocket-sized Tongan fan in one hand and mobile phone in the […]
My mother’s ancestors lived in Java and Sumatra. My Dad’s ancestors were convicts on the second fleet. Mum met Dad when he visited Java by way of Papua New Guinea […]
(First published at Running Dog.) Growing up Black in Australia meant living with subtle, but frequent, acts of discrimination. My white friend’s mother was always glad to have me over. […]
The essence of Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is the invisible barriers that dictate what we can be, who we can be with and where we will end up. Benson, a […]
(Originally published in the exhibition booklet.) There’s anger in the eyes of the women Amani Haydar paints. There is strength and sadness as well, which by all accounts, is a reflection […]
On a Tuesday night at Gleebooks, between Sydney’s hurried inner-city and its hipstered inner-west, three Australian Muslim writers gathered to talk about their ideas of race and belonging. Writers Somali-Australian, Khalid Warsame and Lebanese-Australian, Michael […]
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★★★★☆ First published in The Big Issue, 30 October 2020 Addicted Australia, a four-part docuseries from Blackfella Films (Filthy Rich and Homeless), provides viewers access to the lives of 10 everyday Australians struggling with addictions […]
