Light from the Dark – transforming trauma into beautiful stories

With Edita Mujkic (Between Before and After ) and Dani Netherclift (Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies).

Hosted by writer and counsellor Sumitra Singam (co-author Are You Willing? ).

Edita Mukjic is an award-winning author and a National Ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia. Her memoir, Between Before and After, was shortlisted for the international 2024 Memoir Prize, it was runner-up in the Lakeland Book of the Year 2023 (UK) and was awarded the Bookends Prize (UK).

Dani Netherclift is an essayist and poet living on unceded Taungurung Country. Her book, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies was published last year by Upswell and will be released in North America in 2026 with Assembly Press. She is president and co-curator of the Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.