Masterclass with writer Sara M. Saleh

Join us this Monday for a Masterclass with writer and poet Sara Saleh.

Sara M Saleh is an award-winning writer, poet, human rights lawyer and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon. Her poems, short stories and essays have been widely published nationally in English and Arabic. She is co-editor of the groundbreaking 2019 Arab, Australian, Other.

Sara made history as the first poet to win both the Australian Book Review's 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2020. Her 2023 poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP), was shortlisted for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and the Mary Gilmore Award, and won the 2023 Anne Elder Award. Her first novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm Press, 2023), won the Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for the Multicultural NSW Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Award.

Sara lives on Bidjigal land with her partner and their fur children, cappy and belly hooks.

Sara Saleh is a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. She will give the keynote speech at Perth Storyfest 2025, as well as meet with Forrest Hall scholars for a fireside chat.