I'm a festival artist at the Adelaide premiere of the Jaipur Literature Festival in OzAsia!
I am in two sessions, one is Hyphenations: Bridges Across Cultures, with Jamie Marina Lau, Hoaran Huang and Zhang Yueran hosted by Elizabeth Flux, where we will chat over navigating the hyphens of our identities. The other panel is one that I'm hosting in conversation with Taiwanese Aboriginal (Puyuma) author Badai and Aboriginal (Nukunu) Australian author Jared Thomas. So grateful to Baiyi Sun, Badai's friend and interpreter who arranged to post me Badai's works which I can't find in Melbourne. I've now super immersed myself in Badai's incredible work Sorceress Diguwan which was originally written in Mandarin and Puyuma, and then translated into English. And I've also submerged myself into Jared Thomas' incredible PhD exegesis which accompanied the creative component, his young adult novel Calypso Summers. More info and program at Jaipur Literature Festival: https://www.ozasiafestival.com.au/events/jaipur-literature-festival/
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Together with Evelyn Araluen, Jean Bachoura, Ennis Cehic, Nayuka Gorrie, Yamiko Marama, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Ara Sarafian, Adrian Stanley and Adam Thompson, I am so honoured to be one of the ten inaugural winners of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter scheme.
Winners were chosen from 1100 submissions and the judges were Australian literary legends - Maxine Beneba Clarke, Benjamin Law, Ellen van Neerven and Christos Tsiolkas. We now have twelve exciting months ahead of us, with our first stop at Varuna in late November where our paths will cross. More about The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter here. Here's a short interview with lovely Leah Jing from Liminal about winning the award. Sun 26 Aug, 10am
ACMI Cinema 1 Alert your synapses to a poetic exploration of gender and queerness, featuring poets Broede Carmody, Quinn Eades, Michael Farrell, Kate Lilley, Lian Low, Harry Reid and Ania Walwicz. Hosted by Adolfo Aranjuez. This session is free, no bookings are required. Supported by Australian Poetry and Cordite Publishing Inc More info at the Melbourne Writers Festival So honoured to be alongside Jeanine Leane and Lemn Sissay in this event at the Bendigo Writers Festival. More info: Speak Out: Bendigo Writers Festival
So excited to be part of Express Media's team to Bendigo!
More info via Writers Vic and Express Media Milk bars, fast cars, the Maccas run, shopping trolleys up the creek, tags and plastic bags, skate parks, ovals, summer sun, slow trains, even slower buses, the walk to school and Aussie Rules, your church, your mosque, your temple, your shopping centre. Readings and performances about the ‘burbs, held in a local backyard. With Eleanor Jackson, Lian Low, CB Mako, Omar Sakr and Sumudu Samarawickrama. Hosted by Khalid Warsame Wednesday 27 June 2018
7pm $19 full/$17 concession The meeting point for this event is at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Please arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled event time so you can be escorted to the venue. Meet at Edinburgh Castle Hotel 681 Sydney Road, Brunswick, VIC 3056 For more info check out the Emerging Writers Festival webpage on: http://www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/reading-the-suburbs/ Every year in January for the past six years, for approximately seven minutes or so I return to share the stage with an incredible bunch of writers. Hosted by "Melbourne's favourite sparkle-puppy muppet dominatrix, Lisa-Skye. A safe space, but never boring. With Papa Lisa at the helm, expect controlled anarchy, polished madness and fascinating yarns that never kick down." S/he's curated a bumper line-up of award-winning performers, including Quinn Eades, Aimee Nichols, Erin Kyan , Eddy Burger, John Stevens, Megan Petrie, LJ Maher and a very special newcomer! Wed 17th Jan 730pm at Hares and Hyenas. More info at Midsumma Festival and The Big Times I have a piece called "Living Heritages" in The Lifted Brow's "Feeder's Digest". I was commissioned to write this piece by Ellen van Neerven. It was a humbling experience for me, as it was an opportunity to deepen a friendship & dared me to trust my writing better.
"Living Heritages" is a creative non fiction piece on how development is consuming Melaka. It's also a sketch of my friend, an anarchist and democracy agitator, history and heritage activist Bert Tan of the 18 539 strong FB group Malaysian Heritage and History Club. In my writing, I was trying to be 'objective', but was gently guided by Ellen to answer a very sensitive qs regarding my return after being away for so long, by a simple poetic insertion. The poetic insertions became quiet reflections accompanying the prose. It was humbling to work with Ellen also because at the tail end of the final draft, Ellen was subjected to racist abuse from NSW HSC students post exams who launched social media attacks regarding their poem "Mango" from Comfort Food. During this time, I received an invitation to contribute to a tribute about Ellen's work from Gomeroi poet and law scholar Alison Whittaker, facilitated by TLB's online editor Linh Nguyen. The usual contributor fee for an online piece was donated to the Indigenous Literary Foundation, and TLB donated the same amount of money to the ILF. In solidarity with Ellen and and this tribute, I've also decided to donate my contributor's fee to the the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and IndigenousX. ** See "Ellen van Neerven" in The Lifted Brow for the full tribute. EDITION 28 & 29 – WE’RE QUEER HERE
If sexuality and gender are implicated in culture, and culture a determinant what is acceptable in terms of those identities, what changes when we – the citizen, the lover, the human – changes place? http://peril.com.au/current-edition/edition2829/ My contribution to this edition is "Fairytale" |