OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words
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.
Today’s writers speak in many languages, sometimes all at once. These writers navigate the space where translation isn’t just technical, it’s deeply personal.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
A vibrant celebration of Asian and Asian Australian literature, writing, and ideas. Discover, engage, inspire. 7-9 November '25.
Discover OzAsia Festival's Weekend of WordsBoon Wurrung Country (Melbourne), Australia
Eugenia Flynn is a Chinese Malaysian, Larrakia, Tiwi and Muslim writer, creative and researcher. Her essays, short stories, poems and textual works have been published and exhibited widely. Her creative practice explores narratives of truth, grief and devastation, interwoven with explorations of race and gender.
Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues, Art Will Save Us and The Line Keeps Moving
Chandil, India
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar has written the novels The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey and My Father's Garden, and the short story collection, The Adivasi Will Not Dance. He has won a Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and has been shortlisted twice for the JCB Prize for Literature and The Hindu Prize.
Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues
Seremban, Malaysia
Malachi Edwin Vethamani is a Malaysian poet, writer, editor, critic, bibliographer, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham. He has published five volumes of poems and two collections of short stories. He is the Founding Editor of Men Matters Online Journal (2020).
Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues and The Poetic Line Workshop
Kohima, Nagaland India
Beni Sumer Yanthan is the pen name of Yanbeni Yanthan. She is an Assistant Professor at Nagaland University. Her works encompassing poetry, essays, reviews, and short stories, have been published in various journals, e-zines, newspapers, and forums.
Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues
Naarm (Melbourne), Australia
Mridula researches and teaches Indigenous, multicultural and postcolonial literatures, with an emphasis on diasporic writings of South Asia around the world (including in Asia, Africa and the Americas), Asian literatures in translation and culinary cultures.
Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues and Art Will Save Us
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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.
Plan your literary weekend at OzAsia Festival's Weekend of Words with our interactive planner and venue maps.
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