Yumna Kassab is a writer from Sydney. She is the author of The House of Youssef, Australiana and The Lovers. She has been listed for The Stella, QLD Literary Awards, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and NSW Premier’s Award. Her writing has appeared in Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, The Saturday Paper and Kill Your Darlings. Her next project is Politica. It is an imagined political history of the Arab World and will be released in November, 2023, through Ultimo Press.
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Wednesday 14 June, 7pm
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Come set the stage for the landmark 20th Emerging Writers’ Festival!
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Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June
Frayed at the ends
Weaving language, labour and spirit, two poets expose the intersections and splinters that arise when two perspectives are made to share the same space.
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Tuesday 20 June, 6:30pm
Writers’ Night School: Writing Family
Join Elfy Scott, author of The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About as she unpacks different approaches to writing our personal peripheries.
Thursday 22 June, 8:30am
Morning Pages: Personal Archives
Allow Sharlene Allsopp to guide you through some early morning writing prompts and techniques to breathe new life into nostalgia- soaked memories, either inherited or lived.
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