Eda Gunaydin

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist. Her debut essay collection, Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance, won the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

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Eda Gunaydin

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian writer and researcher whose work explores class, Western Sydney, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth Publishing) was critically acclaimed, winning the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Prize for New Writer of the Year at the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Her essays and short stories have been published in the Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, Liminal, Meanjin, HEAT Magazine, and others. She is currently appointed as Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Her debut short story collection, Red Flag, is forthcoming in 2025.

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Writing Identity and Inequality

DATE April 6 TIME 2:30 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Free

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Root & Branch

Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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