Feminist mentors and writers

Monday, 21 May 2018 - 8:30am to 9:00am

On this episode of Women on the Line we chat with two feminist writers of colour about mentorship and writing feminism. We chat with Natalie Kon-Yu about the Feminist Writers Festival, mentorships in the australian literary industry, academia and motherhood. Later in the show we chat with Shu-Ling Chua about memoir writing, mothers and writing sexuality.

Bios

Natalie Kon-Yu is a creative writer, editor and academic, with a particular focus on creative writing by women and feminist literary criticism.She is working on a project that examines the place of women and writers of colour in the Australian Literary Industry. Natalie has been published in national and international journals, won the Katharine Susannah Prichard Emerging Writer in Residency, an Australian Society of Authors’ Mentorship, and been long-listed for The Australian/Vogel Award. She is currently completing her first novel. 

Shu-Ling Chua (@hellopollyanna) is a writer who focusses on sex, culture, femininity and growing up. Her work has appeared in Feminartsy, Peril Magazine and Meanjin, among others. She is working on a collection of essays on coming of age as a young Asian-Australian woman and is a 2018 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.

Monday 8:30am to 9:00am
A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).

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Emma Hart, Kannagi Bhatt, Phuong Tran, Xen Nhà

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