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Tracy Ryan’s Launch Speech –
[pdf-embedder url=”https://staging.iamemilysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Vociferate-launch-speech.pdf” title=”Vociferate launch speech”] Venue: Planet Books, Northbridge. 8th August 2021. Photograph Courtesy of Rashida Murphy
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Hassan Al Nawwab – Poems That Do Not Sleep
Next month, Fremantle Press will be releasing my poetry collection alongside Hassan Al Nawwab’s Poems That Do Not Sleep. I feel so honoured that my debut is alongside an award winning dissident poet! Hassan is an award winning Iraqi poet who came to Australia to escape Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime. As a university graduate, Hassan was drafted into the army as a tank driver during the 1980s Iran and Iraq war. Although that war ended in a stalemate in 1988, it wasn’t until early 1991 that Iraq withdrew all troops. The First Gulf War began in 1991. His poems, to the English language reader, are deceptively simple and speak of the…
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REPOST: Emma Young: Journalist and Author of The Last Bookshop
I’ve been so busy in 2020 that I haven’t had much time to update this blog so please enjoy a conversation I had with Emma Young back in late 2019. Emma’s debut novel The Last Bookshop will be released this month. ** Emma Young is an award-winning journalist at WAtoday by day and a novelist before sunrise. I met Emma, at Laurie Steed’s KSP 1st Edition fellowship in 2018 where she inspired me with her commitment to her craft. I learnt so much from her about how to ‘own it’ as a writer and my writing practice has changed because of Emma. I already a big fan of her work at the…