Sam Elkin is a writer, arts producer and radio maker living in Naarm. Sam’s recent fiction and essays have been published in the Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Island Magazine. He is a co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia, host of Queer View Mirror (RRR) and ABC Radio National’s Crossing Time: A History of Trans Australia. Sam’s debut essay collection will be published by Upswell in 2024.
Appearing In

Sunday 18 June, 4:30pm
Westside Writers Salon
Four exceptional writers from the West will share selections from their most recent work, live at Williamstown’s beautiful Town Hall.
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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.

Friday 23 June, 11AM
Writeability: Self-told Stories
This panel features writers who have lived experience of disability reflecting on writing today.

Friday 16 June, 8pm
what if we held hands in the queer archives
Five writers traverse the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) and interact with the queer histories collected and preserved there.

Wednesday 21 June, 12:30pm
Lunch/Break: Multipractice Storytelling
Storytelling traverses many different artforms and often those forms are in conversation with one another. Hear from artists working across genre, form and format about how different approaches to storytelling make up their practices. Learn about the different ways, places, and times that storytelling can occur and how diversifying your practice and strengthening your skills […]
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