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OzAsia’s Weekend of Words 2024 announces program

Asian writers and creatives from near and far will congregate in this three-day festival in Adelaide.

18 Sep 2024 14:51

Thuy On

Two panels. On the left is Jennifer Wong, an Asian woman smiling and wearing glasses. On the right is Benjamin Law, an Asian man wearing a white-shirt and smiling.

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Guests at OzAsia’s Weekend of Words Festival. L-R: Jennifer Wong. Photo: Lin Jie Kong. Benjamin Law. Photo: Daniel Francisco Robies.

The program of OzAsia’s Festival’s Weekend of Words has been released. The largest gathering of Asian and Asian Australian writers and thinkers in the country will come together from 8-10 November at Adelaide Festival Centre for a weekend of conversations, panels and workshops.

Curated by multi award-winning writer and comedian Sami Shah, the program features 24 free events from more than 35 Asian and Asian Australian creatives, including international guests Benjamin Chee and Wayne Rée from Singapore Writers Festival, Vajra Chandrasekera from Sri Lanka and South Korea’s Bora Chung and Anton Hur.

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Thuy On

Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy