Category: News

March 3, 2021
Get to Know You: Left to Write Facilitator, Maddie Godfrey!

Meet Maddie Godfrey, our Poetry Community Facilitator for Left to Write! Maddie Godfrey is a Perth-bred writer, poet, editor, educator and emotional feminist, who uses storytelling to facilitate compassionate conversations about social issues. At 25, they have performed poetry at The Sydney Opera House, The Royal Albert Hall, TedXWomen, St Paul’s Cathedral and Glastonbury Festival […]

February 17, 2021
Get to Know You: Left to Write Facilitator, Claire Cao!

Meet Claire Cao, our Fiction Community Facilitator for Left to Write! Claire Cao is a writer, editor and critic living on Dharug land. She edits fiction for Voiceworks and is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. You can find her work in publications such as Filmmaker, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Life, Running Dog and The Big […]

February 17, 2021
Get to Know You: Left to Write Facilitator, Fleur Kilpatrick!

Meet Fleur Kilpatrick, our Playwriting Community Facilitator for Left to Write! Fleur is an award-winning playwright, a director and educator, focused on building a kinder, more sustainable theatre community. Her plays have won the Max Afford (Whale, 2018), Jill Blewett (Blessed, 2016), the inaugural Helen Noonan Award (Whale, 2019) and the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Playwright Award. She […]

February 12, 2021
Get to Know You: Left to Write Facilitator, Lujayn Hourani!

Meet Lujayn Hourani, our Non-Fiction/Memoir Community Facilitator for Left to Write! Lujayn Hourani is a Palestinian writer, editor, and arts worker living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Their writing worries expectations of land, identity, and the relationship between the two. Lujayn has been programmed at Emerging Writers’ Festival, Digital Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival, and Freeplay, […]