Book Review: Memorial
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 […]
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Interview: Keana Aguila Labra
Butch interviews Keana Aguila Labra, editor of the international Filipinx femme literary magazine, Marias at Sampaguitas.
Memory and faith in the work of Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Khalid Warsame
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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Book Review: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
(First posted at Books+Publishing.) Somewhere between wetting her pants during a standing ovation and sleeping with her conductor, violinist Jena Chung finds herself lonely. Set against a backdrop of Sydney suburbs […]
Book Review: The Lost Citizens
On the 31st October 2019, Daniel Nour and I from Sweatshop Writer’s Collective, attended WestWords October Poets’ Corner event. Reading and talking to the theme of ‘Memory as Place’, was Omar Sakr, a Turkish-Lebanese Australian writer from Western Sydney and author of The Lost Arabs. Until recently, Daniel and […]
Art Review: Terra inFirma
(First pubished by Running Dog.) This year marks 250 years since James Cook invaded Australia and stole Indigenous land with two words: Terra Nullius. In 1770, Australia was declared nobody’s land—although […]
BLEED Festival: Closing
(First pubished as part of the BLEED Echo program, part of the BLEED festival.) BLEED reminds us of the windows we have yet to create, fling open, or completely and irreversibly break down […]
Eugen Bacon: Bringing Dreams to Life
Have you ever been inspired by a dream you once had? Speculative fiction writer Eugen Bacon says she draws inspiration for her work from everywhere, including dreams. At the 2019 Boundless Festival of diverse […]
We Are the Mainstream
In this audio piece from StoryCasters’ podcasting project, Hannah Lai talks to members of We Are the Mainstream, a collective of female-identifying creatives of colour, at their 2019 festival in Bankstown. […]
‘I didn’t realise I wasn’t White’
Storycasters Podcasting Producer Hannah Lai reflects on her childhood growing up in Africa and what it means to be an outsider.