SYDNEY
6:30pm Wednesday 24 April
At Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd
Free – please RSVP via Gleebooks
Join Meanjin Editor Esther Anatolitis in conversation with Na’ama Carlin, Steve Dow, Katie Shammas, Peter Polites and Ianto Ware and let’s discuss the complexities of writing memoir in a time of trauma, war and genocide.
Dr Na’ama Carlin is a sociologist living on unceded Bidjigal land, with her partner and bub. She is a founding Advisory Committee member of the Jewish Council of Australia. Her piece ‘There is no beginning’ is one of the State of the Nation essays in the latest Meanjin.
Steve Dow is is a Sydney arts writer for Guardian Australia, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Limelight, Art Guide Australia and Vault. He was awarded a Walkley for arts journalism in 2020. Our latest edition features his memoir piece Steel springs.
Katie Shammas is from the Galilee, Palestine living on the lands of the Darug people in north-west Sydney. She has been published in POVO (Sweatshop 2024), Kindling and Sage, and Redroom Poetry. Her latest for Meanjin is a work of short fiction titled ‘She is the village’.
Peter Polites is an award-winning novelist from Western Sydney. He has written two queer noirs: Down the Hume and The Pillars. Peter’s latest novel is God Forgets About the Poor. For this edition of Meanjin, Peter is our feature interview.
Ianto Ware is an author, former zine publisher, and researcher specialising in cultural policy. He is currently completing his third book, tentatively titled Fathers, Sons, and Others. The latest Meanjin features his memoir piece ‘Writing, method, affect and adaptation: on writing a book about the death of my mother’.
