At the launch of his book at UNSW Sydney, Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani explained to the audience - via Whatsapp - that the creative process of writing empowered him to retain his humanity.
Writing across histories, countries and languages, sometimes the stories of minority writers in Australia have been unspeakable. How do minority writers engage with the mainstream without becoming tokenised?
Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri poet, life history writer and scholar, explores the boundaries between poetry, fiction and life writing in her two acclaimed books Dark Secrets and Purple Threads, her fictionalised memoir.
