Copyright Agency-UTS Writer in Residence Annual Address 2025 - Dr Eda Gunaydin

We’re finished: Writing polycrisis during the polycrisis

Essayist Eda Gunaydin isn’t afraid of what the future holds. She’s afraid that there might not be one.

Dr Gunaydin’s first book of essays, Root & Branch: Essays in inheritance, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. As this year's Copyright Agency-UTS New Writer in Residence, she has been working on a second collection of essays about polycrisis, our current moment of multiple urgent problems affecting the world simultaneously. Whether it induces feelings of despair or hope, polycrisis changes our common experience of time, space, and even the self.

In her final address, she will consider writing at a time when we are asked to tolerate more uncertainty than ever before. If everything is temporary and nothing is guaranteed, how do you write something that lasts? 

Dr Gunaydin’s address will be followed by a Q&A, hosted by Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Dr Delia Falconer

Registrations commence at 5:45 for 6 pm start.