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 guestsBenjamin Chee and Wayne Rée from Singapore Writers Festival, Vajra Chandrasekera from Sri Lankaand South Korea’s Bora Chung and Anton Hur.
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.
Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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