Acts of Resistance
Description
Acclaimed Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen (The Rot; Dropbear) and award-winning Australian-Palestinian author and educator Micaela Sahhar (Find Me at the Jaffa Gate) come together to discuss writing as a way of resisting colonial violence, oppression, displacement and erasure. With winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction André Dao.
Lineup
Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. Born and raised on Dharug Country and in the broader Western Sydney Black community, she now lives on Wurundjeri Country where she is a lecturer at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, a co-editor of Overland Literary Journal and Chairperson for the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award’s 2022 Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the premier’s awards of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also received the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award. The Rot won the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature and Award for Indigenous Writing at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Headshot: Leah Jing McIntosh
Micaela Sahhar
Micaela Sahhar is an Australian–Palestinian writer and educator living on Wurundjeri Country. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit and Sydney Review of Books, among others. She is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021), a grant recipient from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund (2022), and was commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship (2024). Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family (NewSouth), won the 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2026 NSW Literary Award (UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing), and was longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize. Headshot: Tim Herbert
André Dao
André Dao is an author and researcher from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His debut novel, Anam, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Voss Literary Award. In 2024, he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. André was awarded the 2024 Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism for essays published in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin and Liminal.
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