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Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award

TWZ 2021 participant Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn has been shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for a piece co-written with Reina Brigette Takeuchi and published by Going Down Swinging: ‘Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship‘. Congratulations, Lucia!

You can read more about the Woollahra Digital Literary Award, and vote for Lucia in the Readers’ Choice Award, at the following link: https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library/whats_on/digital_literary_award

Sarah Carroll to appear at the National Young Writers’ Festival

TWZ 2022 participant Sarah Carroll will be appearing at the National Young Writers’ Festival on Friday 30 September 2022. Congratulations Sarah!

You can read more about Sarah and book tickets to her event through the following link: https://youngwritersfestival.org/artists/sarah-carroll/

J. Marahuyo to appear on WestWords panel for emerging writers from Western Sydney

TWZ 2022 participant J. Marahuyo will be appearing on a panel curated by WestWords for emerging writers from Western Sydney on Wednesday 14 September 2022. Congratulations, J.!

You can book your (free) tickets here: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/…/emerging-voices/

Sarah Carroll performing in one-woman show at the Sydney Fringe Festival

TWZ 2022 participant Sarah Carroll is running her one-woman show CHERRY as part of the The Sydney Fringe from 13 to 17 September 2022. CHERRY was submitted as part of Sarah’s application to TWZ.

You can buy tickets here: https://sydneyfringe.com/events/cherry/

Danny Yazdani shortlisted for 2022 Honi Soit Writing Competition

TWZ 2022 participant Danny Yazdani’s piece ‘The dichotomy of exile and return’ was shortlisted for the 2022 Honi Soit Writing Competition. Congratulations, Danny!

You can read Danny’s piece here: https://honisoit.com/2022/08/the-dichotomy-of-exile-and-return/

Anith Mukherjee wins the 2020 Deborah Cass Prize for Writing

TWZ 2021 participant Anith Mukherjee won the 2020 Deborah Cass Prize for Writing for his story ‘I Am Full of Love’. Congratulations, Anith!

Laneikka Denne’s play Dead Skin shown at Kings Cross Theatre

TWZ 2021 participant Laneikka Denne performed in her play, Dead Skin, at Kings Cross Theatre from 2-17 April 2021.

James W. Goh and Huyen Hac Helen Tran received 2021 SRB-BAC Writers’ Residencies

TWZ 2020 participant Huyen Hac Helen Tran and TWZ 2021 participant James W. Goh received the 2021 Sydney Review of Books and Bankstown Arts Centre residencies. Congratulations!

As part of the residencies, both writers had pieces published by the Sydney Review of Books. You can read the essays here.

Nadia Hirst, Martyn Reyes and Christine Lai feature as part of Symbiosis: Bankstown Biennale 2020

TWZ 2020 participants Nadia Hirst, Martyn Reyes and Christine Lai had pieces published by the Sydney Review of Books as part of the Symbiosis: Bankstown Biennale 2020.

You can read the essays here.