The Emerging Writers’ Festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
EWF celebrates the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.
Sisonke Msimang is an acclaimed nonfiction writer whose work focuses on race, gender and democracy. In her debut memoir, Always Another Country, she reflected on what it was like to grow up in exile – exploring the meaning of belonging and home with great power and lyricism.
Join Sisonke Msimang for an insightful keynote and Q&A session to learn how to wield your own personal histories into moving, deep, political stories that extend beyond the self.
This session is part of the National Writers’ Conference, a one-day online gathering of emerging writers on Zoom.
To attend, you can buy a National Writers’ Conference Pass here to enjoy the full day of industry insights. Check out the full program here.
To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link and password on the day of the event. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder). Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the Conference starts, if not sold out prior.
You can download Zoom for free here.
Sisonke Msimang is a writer whose work focusses on money, power and sex. She is the author of two books – Always Another Country: a memoir of exile and home; and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. She has published widely, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Newsweek and the Guardian.
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