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.

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Sisonke Msimang

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. She is narrator and host of Temporary, a podcast on the effects of refugee policy in Australia. She curates the Perth Festival’s writer’s program as is the head of oral storytelling at the Centre for Stories.

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