Event:

Talking Writing: Debut Authors

Wednesday 18 October, 6–8:00pm

Talking Writing is our regular themed writing event, designed to explore what writing is and where it can take you.

Join us at Writing NSW for our final Talking Writing event of 2023, as Hayley Scrivenor (Dirt Town), Zaheda Ghani (Pomegranate & Fig) and Nick Bhasin (I Look Forward to Hearing from You) speak to Writing NSW Program Manager and emerging writer Rowena Tuziak about the expectations and realities of first-time publication, and how their lives and careers have changed.

From 6pm, join us for drinks, nibbles, and a chance to meet other writers. The panel will take place from 6:30-8pm.

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Speakers

Hayley Scrivenor

Hayley Scrivenor’s debut novel, Dirt Town (2021), won a slew of national and international awards, including an ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award and a Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong, where her research centred on unusual […]

Nick Bhasin

Nick Bhasin is a writer and editor based in Sydney, but originally from the US. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, Junkee and McSweeney’s and he appeared on ABC Melbourne radio as a cultural attaché. He won the US music game show Name That Tune and his satirical parenting blog […]

Zaheda Ghani

Zaheda Ghani and her family arrived in Australia from Afghanistan as refugees in the 1980s. At nine years old Zaheda, also known as Zoe, hand-wrote her first novel using a HB pencil, in a scented diary with a lock and key. The heart of what she wrote back then developed over many years to become […]

Location

Writing NSW

Writing NSW
Callan Park, Balmain Rd
Lilyfield

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