First Friday Club, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This September, we invite you to our online event with Lena Nahlous, executive director of Diversity Arts. Over the last 20 years, Lena has championed opportunities for culturally diverse artists. […]

Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, Boundless, will return to Western Sydney on Saturday 30 October 2021.

The resilience is the container, really, for my vulnerability – the egg carton holding the fragile shells. Inside the shell of my skin, my brain is the white, the yolk my yellow heart, quivering in gooey jelly.

Boundless, Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, will return to Western Sydney on Saturday 30 October 2021.

“I like to write myself into the story and get to know characters through their interaction with each other. Dialogue is hugely important for me to discover who they are, their relationship to each other, and that wonderful thing of what is not said, or what they actually think.”

“Lean into the emotion. By their nature, psychological thrillers (and psychological dramas, which I feel better describes my writing!) turn on internal conflict, and so it follows that gripping and plausible internal drama maximises their effectiveness.”

“Once I had amassed enough facts, my rage fortified me. I couldn’t contain my secret anymore. My sadness and fear seeped onto the page, as well as an unbridled joy when I discovered Deaf culture.”

“Almost 20 years ago I started writing the story of my life; the unconventional, and at times risky, journey I took to come to Australia from my home country of China, via Hong Kong, to become a family physician, a husband and a father of three…”