Your Favourites' Favourites: Yumna Kassab and Raaza Jamshed - Friday 22 May, 5pm
Former Parramatta Laureate in Literature and author of Politica, The Theory of Everything and Goodbye, My Love Yumna Kassab introduces writer and editor Raaza Jamshed and her debut novel, What Kept You?. This powerful work from a new voice in Australian fiction is a poetic, multi-vocal story about a young woman navigating the violence of colonialism, environmental destruction and misogyny.
What Makes a Writer - Saturday 23 May, 2pm
Featuring the outgoing Parramatta Laureate in Literature Yumna Kassab (Goodbye, My Love), iconic Australian writer and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke (beautiful changelings), and the new Laureate, award-winning essayist and fiction writer Eda Gunaydin (Root and Branch). This will be an illuminating and insightful conversation about the opportunities available and barriers facing writers throughout a lifelong career. and the new Laureate, award-winning essayist and fiction writer Eda Gunaydin (Root and Branch). This will be an illuminating and insightful conversation about the opportunities available and barriers facing writers throughout a lifelong career.