Micaela Sahhar
Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator living on Wurundjeri Country. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit and Sydney Review of Books, among others. She is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021), a grant recipient from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund (2022) which enabled travel to Jerusalem in 2023 to complete her book project, and was commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship (2024). Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopedia of a Palestinian family (NewSouth) will be released in May 2025.
An evening of readings and performance to launch Next Chapter fellowship recipient Anne-Marie Te Whiu’s debut poetry collection, a defiant celebration of her Māori lineage, language and culture.
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Celebrate the launch of Find Me at the Jaffa Gate, a moving and genre-defying contemplation of inheritance, place, memory and chance by Micaela Sahhar, a masterful new voice in literature.
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The Next Big Thing wraps up for 2022 with an evening of readings from this year’s Next Chapter writers.
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