The Truth Table
Event description
Maryam Azam, Naima Ibrahim, Raidah Shah Idil lay the truth on the table in this panel on how they take true events and weave them into narrative stories through mediums of essays, poetry, and books.
ABOUT THE PANELLISTS
Maryam Azam
Maryam Azam is a Pakistani-Australian writer and teacher from Western Sydney. Her debut poetry collection The Hijab Files (Giramondo, 2018) was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore award and Anne Elder award. Maryam is currently working on her second book, assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Naima Ibrahim
Naima is a Sydney-based fiction writer with a degree in Education from Charles Sturt University. She has previously been shortlisted for the Monash Prize in Creative Writing and longlisted for the Liminal Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Collisions, Kill Your Darlings, Red Room Poetry, Sweatshop Women: Volume One, This Little Red Thing and ZineWest’19. Naima was the 2020 recipient of the 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award and is currently working on her debut novel.
Sarah Malik
Sarah Malik is a Walkley Award-winning Australian journalist and writer. She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and The Sydney Morning Herald ; and she has presented and produced programs for ABC Radio National. She currently works as a senior writer at SBS.
Raidah Shah Idil
Raidah Shah Idil was born in Singapore, grew up in Sydney, Australia, worked in Amman, Jordan and now lives in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia with her husband, three children and mother-in-law. Raidah earned her BA in English and BSc in Psychology from the University of New South Wales. Her writing has been published in SBS Voices, Muslim Matters, SISTERS magazine, The Feminist Wire, Daily Life, Lip Mag, The Elephant Journal, Venture Beat and MuslimVillage. Raidah loves ginger tea, noodle soup and dreams of uninterrupted sleep.
Raidah is represented by Allison Hellegers of Stimola Literary Studio.