Vanessa Berry

Vanessa Berry is a writer who lives on Gadigal land. Calendar, an essay collection in 365 objects, will be published by Upswell in October 2025.

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Vanessa Berry

Vanessa Berry is a writer, artist and zinemaker who works with memory, history, archives and objects. Her next book, Calendar, an essay collection in 365 objects, written in real-time over a year, will be published by Upswell in 2025. Vanessa is the author Gentle and Fierce (2021), a memoir about human and animal relationships, and the award-winning Mirror Sydney (2017), about urban environments and change, based on the popular Mirror Sydney blog. She is the author of the autobiographical zine series I am a Camera and her zine and illustration works have been exhibited at major Australian galleries. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney.

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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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