In this exciting showcase of performances and readings, six of Sweatshop’s most dynamic writers share their stories on love, fear and faith. Including readings from Jazz Money, Guido Melo, Maryam Azam, Shirley Le, Mark Mariano and L-FRESH The LION. Hosted by Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement's Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 

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In this exciting showcase of performances and readings, six of Sweatshop’s most dynamic writers share their stories on love, fear and faith. Including readings from Jazz Money, Guido Melo, Maryam Azam, Shirley Le, Mark Mariano and L-FRESH The LION. Hosted by Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement's Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 
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Exit Through the Sweatshop

As conflict plays out across an unnamed region, the protagonist in Parramatta Laureate of Literature Yumna Kassab’s Politica imagines how she will later narrate her experiences: “We hadn’t spoken for years but then the war broke out...” 

Sharing difficult stories is also at the heart of Miles Franklin Award winner Shankari Chandran’s Safe Haven, which follows a refugee threatened with deportation when she speaks out for other detainees. Sit down with Yumna and Shankari as they discuss their poignant and timely novels, which ask how, if possible, we can measure the cost of war and what lengths we will go to in the search for safety. With host Ashley Hay.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. 

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As conflict plays out across an unnamed region, the protagonist in Parramatta Laureate of Literature Yumna Kassab’s Politica imagines how she will later narrate her experiences: “We hadn’t spoken for years but then the war broke out...” 
Sharing difficult stories is also at the heart of Miles Franklin Award winner Shankari Chandran’s Safe Haven, which follows a refugee threatened with deportation when she speaks out for other detainees. Sit down with Yumna and Shankari as they discuss their poignant and timely novels, which ask how, if possible, we can measure the cost of war and what lengths we will go to in the search for safety. With host Ashley Hay.
This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. 
If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  
Sydney Writers’ Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  
After more? Follow Sydney Writers’ Festival on social media:  Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sydwritersfest/">@sydwritersfest</a>  Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SydWritersFest">@SydWritersFest</a>  X (Twitter): <a href="https://twitter.com/SydWritersFest">@SydWritersFest</a>  TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sydwritersfest">@sydwritersfest</a>

The Presence of the Past

After smash-hit Fates and Furies, the modern-day marriage story that was Barack Obama’s book of the year in 2015, Lauren Groff’s novels have looked to the past to understand the present. 

Her latest historical novel, The Vaster Wilds, is set on the edge of the New World at an unnamed British settlement in the Americas. Fleeing violence, disease and starvation, a servant girl enters the wilderness alone. This spirited survivalist story has been critically acclaimed as “exhilarating” (The Guardian), “visionary” (The Observer) and “timeless” (The Times).

Join Lauren and host Melanie Kembrey as they explore this prophetic novel, which encapsulates the story of America in miniature.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. 

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After smash-hit Fates and Furies, the modern-day marriage story that was Barack Obama’s book of the year in 2015, Lauren Groff’s novels have looked to the past to understand the present. 
Her latest historical novel, The Vaster Wilds, is set on the edge of the New World at an unnamed British settlement in the Americas. Fleeing violence, disease and starvation, a servant girl enters the wilderness alone. This spirited survivalist story has been critically acclaimed as “exhilarating” (The Guardian), “visionary” (The Observer) and “timeless” (The Times).
Join Lauren and host Melanie Kembrey as they explore this prophetic novel, which encapsulates the story of America in miniature.
This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. 
If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  
Sydney Writers’ Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  
After more? Follow Sydney Writers’ Festival on social media:  Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sydwritersfest/">@sydwritersfest</a>  Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SydWritersFest">@SydWritersFest</a>  X (Twitter): <a href="https://twitter.com/SydWritersFest">@SydWritersFest</a>  TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sydwritersfest">@sydwritersfest</a>

Lauren Groff: The Vaster Wilds

Join Richard Flanagan as he discusses this hypnotic, genre-defying new book which entwines memoir, biography, autofiction and history through a daisy chain of stories both intimate and collective.

Opening with his father as a prisoner of war, the book leads readers through a literary love affair into nuclear physics of the 1930s and 40s and finally towards a young Richard fighting for his life in Tasmanian river rapids in a rumination on life’s choices and their intergenerational chain reactions. Richard speaks with Kerry O’Brien.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. 

If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  

Sydney Writers’ Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  

After more? Follow Sydney Writers’ Festival on social media: 
Instagram: @sydwritersfest
Facebook: @SydWritersFest
X (Twitter): @SydWritersFest
TikTok: @sydwritersfest

Join Richard Flanagan as he discusses this hypnotic, genre-defying new book which entwines memoir, biography, autofiction and history through a daisy chain of stories both intimate and collective.
Opening with his father as a prisoner of war, the book leads readers through a literary love affair into nuclear physics of the 1930s and 40s and finally towards a young Richard fighting for his life in Tasmanian river rapids in a rumination on life’s choices and their intergenerational chain reactions. Richard speaks with Kerry O’Brien.
This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. 
If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  
Sydney Writers’ Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  
After more? Follow Sydney Writers’ Festival on social media:  Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sydwritersfest/">@sydwritersfest</a>  Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SydWritersFest">@SydWritersFest</a>  X (Twitter): <a href="https://twitter.com/SydWritersFest">@SydWritersFest</a>  TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sydwritersfest">@sydwritersfest</a>

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