Yumna Kassab at Newscastle Writers Festival

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the State Library of NSW and to celebrate, a line-up of contributors to a new book commemorating the milestone reflect on the libraries that shaped them as readers and writers. With Gail Jones, Yumna Kassab, Sarah Krasnostein, and Corey Tutt. Hosted by Phillipa McGuinness.

Cadance Bell, Yumna Kassab, and Nick Milligan write genre-blending books that refuse neat labels. From hybrid fiction to experimental form, they speak to Nina Cullen about why crossing boundaries matters now, how risk drives storytelling, and what readers gain when literature slips free of expectation.