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OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words
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is holding sessions and workshops with a litany of acclaimed and award-winning writers. Home OzAsia Festival’s
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9 Nov '25
Whose Recipe is it Anyway?
Session 14
Durkhanai Ayubi, Elana Benjamin and Sukhmani Khorana discuss the politics of food writing: from family recipes to borrowed dishes at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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9 Nov '25
A Brave New Space
Session 11
Join Joo Dong-geun, Stephen Kok and Queenie Chan to discuss three different cultural expressions of comics, from the east to the west at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Fake News / Real Journalism
Session 2
Osman Faruqi, Kirsten Han and Smriti Daniel share tools, tactics and moments of triumph in the journalists battle for clarity and care at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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9 Nov '25
Not Just Pretty Rhymes
Session 13
Manisha Anjali, Hasib Hourani, Thuy On and Grace Yee remind us that a well-written line of poetry can hit harder than a headline at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Writing for Streaming
Session 8
Tony Ayres, Ratih Kumala and Tamara Asmar have a candid conversation about collaboration, creative control and crafting stories that resonate at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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Festival hub offering delicious food inspired by Asian cuisine, bars, and free entertainment throughout the festival. OzAsia Festival’s writing and ideas program
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OzAsia Festival’s writing and ideas program returns for another year of conversations between poets, novelists, journalists, playwrights, performers, and creatives from around the world.
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9 Nov '25
I Get My News from TikTok
Session 12
Explore how Aarti Betigeri, Jan Fran, Kirsten Han and Osman Faruqi are reshaping the future of news at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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9 Nov '25
Do the Voice
Session 17
Michael Hing, Lawrence Leung, Kushi Venkatesh and Jason Chong talk about what it means to be funny without playing the stereotype at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Some of My Best Friends Are Made Up
Session 5
Shankari Chandran, Steve MinOn, Mirandi Riwoe and Siang Lu share how they conjure characters from nothing and make them feel real at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Art Will Save Us
Session 10
Manisha Anjali, Datsun Tran, Sandhya Parappukkaran and Eugenia Flynn share how storytelling builds solidarity and becomes a blueprint for change at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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9 Nov '25
Guilty Pleasures
Session 18
Yumna Kassab, Steve MinOn, Mirandi Riwoe and Qin Qin confess the books they’re embarrassed to love and what makes them a guilty pleasure at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Your Script is Great, But…
Session 3
Tamara Asmar, Tony Ayres, Leela Varghese and Lawrence Leung share a practical (and painfully honest) look at getting from page to production at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Speaking in Tongues
Session 7
Eugenia Flynn, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Beni Sumer Yanthan and Mridula Nath Chakraborty navigate the space where translation is technical and personal at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Happily Ever After?
Session 4
Keshe Chow, Ann Liang, Saman Shad and Alex Lee talk all things romance and writing love that feels real at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
Thriving as a Writer
Session 1
Hossein Asgari, Yumna Kassab, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Siang Lu and Qin Qin talk about the survival and success of a writer at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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9 Nov '25
The Line Keeps Moving
Session 16
Osman Faruqi, Eugenia Flynn, Jan Fran and Smriti Daniel unpack how institutions, media and politics inform who gets silenced or platformed at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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9 Nov '25
Track Changes
Session 15
Lyn Dickens, Sara Haddad, Kalhari Jayaweera, Sashi Perera and Aarti Betigeri explore the tough and joyful process of editing at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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8 Nov '25
What Will People Say?
Session 6
Cheng Lei, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Quah Ee Ling, Kumi Taguchi and Qin Qin share a deeply human conversation about memoir, shame and storytelling at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words.
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