Perth Launch: Stories That Want To Be Told
This conversation will uplift you, make you think and challenge you to act, all with an eye on how we might make life better.
Featuring
- Robert Wood
See more about Robert Wood - Victoria Laurie
See more about Victoria Laurie - Hessom Razavi
See more about Hessom Razavi
Feb 7, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Centre for Stories
Join us for the Perth launch of Stories That Want To Be Told. With award winning writer Hessom Razavi and journalist Victoria Laurie, they will talk about the book and the issues facing us as a community. With an eye on mentoring and collaboration, it will look at human rights, refugees, and freedom of expression in Australia today. This conversation will uplift you, make you think and challenge you to act, all with an eye on how we might make life better. The event will be facilitated by Robert Wood.
ABOUT HESSOM
Hessom Razavi is a writer and doctor. He was born in Iran in 1976. When he was seven, his family fled that country to escape political persecution. He grew up in Pakistan and the United Kingdom before migrating to Australia when he was thirteen. Hessom has visited Manus Island and Nauru in a medical capacity. He was awarded the Australian Books Review’s Behrouz Boochani Fellowship and writes poetry and essays, and he is currently working on his first collection. Hessom was mentored by Victoria for this project.
ABOUT VICTORIA
Victoria Laurie is an award-winning journalist. Her career began in ABC radio and TV current affairs, followed by print journalism for The Bulletin, The Australian newspaper, Weekend Magazine and other publications. She has been a Walkley Award finalist three times, is a recipient of an Equal Opportunity Media Award and numerous state awards. Victoria mentored Hessom for this project.
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Robert Wood
Collapse BioDr. Robert Wood (BA, B.Econ, Hons, AM, PhD) is interested in community, ideas and language, and the author of five books with an international profile. In 2021, he is one of ten Westpac Social Change Fellows. Robert was an Endeavour Research Fellow at Columbia University from 2017 to 2018 working with Nobel, Booker and Pulitzer Winners. In 2018, he was a Copyright Agency Emerging Critic with Sydney Review of Books, and had a monthly column with the Los Angeles Review of Books from 2017 to 2020. Between 2013 and 2016, he edited for the journals Cordite, Peril, and Overland, and was on the Faculty of The School of Life in Melbourne. Robert is responsible for developing partnerships with artists and social change organisations; planning a program of activities, including writing, publishing and mentoring; quality control of all creative outputs; and implementing best-practice models that improve wellbeing.
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Victoria Laurie
Collapse BioVictoria Laurie is an award-winning journalist. Her career began in ABC radio and TV current affairs, followed by print journalism for The Bulletin, The Australian & The Weekend Australian Magazine and other publications. She has been a Walkley Award finalist three times, is a recipient of an Equal Opportunity Media Award and numerous state awards.
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Hessom Razavi
Collapse BioHessom Razavi is a writer and doctor. He was born in Iran in 1976. When he was seven, his family fled that country to escape political persecution. He grew up in Pakistan and the United Kingdom before migrating to Australia when he was thirteen. Hessom has visited Manus Island and Nauru in a medical capacity. He was awarded the Australian Books Review’s Behrouz Boochani Fellowship and writes poetry and essays, and he is currently working on his first collection.
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