by Blick | Jun 5, 2023 | News
Behrouz Boochani made many public appearances and attend many events during his recent visit, including a dinner held by the Kurdish Youth Association in Blacktown, Sydney, in late January attended by members of Sydney PEN. His appearance at Parliament House was in...
by Blick | Jun 5, 2023 | News
Protesters support Coco Violet. Photograph by Kate Geraghty courtesy of The Sydney Morning Herald Deanna “Coco” Violet wept with relief inside the NSW district court in March this year when she learned that her 15-month prison sentence had been set aside. Almost a...
by Blick | May 19, 2023 | News
The annual PEN Lecture at the Sydney Writers Festival. The Black Witness must be believed, insists Amy McQuire. Black Witnesses have been silenced for two centuries, their accounts only accepted when legitimised by White Witnesses. In order to begin telling the truth...
by Blick | Mar 18, 2023 | News
Louise Milligan – Picture credit: Simon Schluter Writing and publishing a book about a controversial public figure is like diving into shark-infested waters ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan said at the recent Adelaide Writers’ Week. She wondered if...
by Blick | Mar 18, 2023 | News
A Tibetan writer arrested by Chinese police nearly three years ago has been confirmed to be serving four years in prison for “splittism and spreading rumours in internet chat groups,” reports Lobe Socktsang for Radio Free Asia. Zangkar Jamyang, now 45, disappeared on...
by Blick | Mar 14, 2023 | News
It was just over 20 years ago that I walked through the front doors to do an arts and law degree. I was 18, a bookish and shy young Muslim woman from a western Sydney public school. I was exhilarated and so excited by the life I wanted at a big city university like...
