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Upcoming Events

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Mar

You Are Not Alone — PEN Letter Writing Night

A letter writing night on the first Monday of each month brought to you by PEN Perth.

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Mar

Close to Home: Discovering Female Indonesian Writers

This event will highlight the work of female Indonesian writers who have challenged dominant narratives. Join us to learn how they explore history, religion, feminist and queer issues, religion and political violence.

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Mar

Lit Live – I Would Do Anything For Love...

Featuring stories of passion and dispassion, love, loss and mistakes.

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Mar

Reading Your Writing

Reading Your Writing is a workshop to help you overcome the nerves of reading your work to an audience.

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Stories

Rehab Ahmed

Rehab takes us through the complexities of faith and community, sharing her story of immigration and closed-door violence–how her community believed her abusive husband’s public persona, why she chose to return to Australia after leaving him, and why he’s the real victim of this story.

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'A Thousand Doors' – Raphael Farmer

Raphael Farmer is a storyteller, gamer, YouTuber, RTRFM presenter and quite possibly Stephen King’s biggest fan. Raphael was a participant in the 2018 Indian Ocean Mentorship Program with the Centre…

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'25 April 1787' and other poems - Rushil D'cruz

Rushil D’cruz is a 21-year-old student, musician, writer, and immigrant from Malaysia. Attempting everything from short stories and poetry to hypertext writing and micro fiction, Rushil’s work attends to the…

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'A Body Stands in Unison' - Tinashe Jakwa

Tinashe Jakwa is a Zimbabwean-born African-Australian writer and researcher based on Noongar Boodjar. Tinashe is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia.…

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'The Tablet' - Raihanaty A Jalil

Raihanaty A Jalil has been a high school teacher, a trader, hoon, poet, rapper, trainer, and speaker. Rai aspires to be a ‘”master of one”—writing continues to remain an underlying…

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Nisha D’Cruz is the latest writer from our Inclusion Matters Mentoring program to be profiled on our website. Learn more about her, her practice, “the poetry in the everyday happenings of life,” and her mentorship with Josephine Clarke.

Follow the link: http://bit.ly/nishathepoet

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25 Feb

We’re profiling writer, gamer, Youtuber and @RTRFM presenter @rfarmeroz from our Inclusion Matters Hot Desk Fellowship this week. He discusses his shifting practice, our workshops and culture, where he’s going next, and more! Follow this link for the read: http://bit.ly/raphfarmer

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22 Feb

Earlier this week we featured Indian Australian poet Priya Kahlon for On the Table. Now we have the privilege of sharing three of her poems. Each is written in a different style to explore a specific theme. Follow this link: http://bit.ly/poetpriyakahlon

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21 Feb

Two formidably intelligent women talking about Indonesian fiction, media, culture. It's Intan Paramaditha and Krishna Sen for @perthfest next week.

http://www.perthfestival.com.au/event/the-wandering/

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20 Feb

Hundreds of stories. Thousands to come. We’re thrilled to launch our Creative Partnerships Australia Plus1-matched fundraising campaign: Changing Lives, Changing Minds. Learn more now: http://bit.ly/changing-minds-changing-lives

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