Come along to an intimate author talk and meet Vesna Flower Cvjetićanin, who will tell us about her book An Unexpected Life, an anthology of Australian migrant women’s stories. Vesna will open the event with her own story, and then introduce this uniquely-woven book to the attendees. There will be time and space for audience questions, to interact with Vesna at a more personal level, and purchase a signed copy of the book.

TICKETS WILL OPEN FOR BOOKING ON 18 OCTOBER.

MEET VESNA

Vesna is a Serbian-born Australian, living and creating in Canberra, ACT. A lawyer, certified interpreter and a practising mediator by profession, Vesna also writes and performs poetry and prose, and also runs multilingual poetry and memoir writing workshops. 2024 marked a significant milestone in Vesna’s artistic and writing activities. She has had her first book commercially published, titled An Unexpected Life. She also presented her poetry at the Canberra’s National Multicultural Festival as well as at the Australia Day Multilingual Poetry Festival at the National Museum of Australia. Her first poetry book is also being launched in her hometown of Sombor, Serbia, in September 2024.

As a contributing editor for the be:longing magazine, Vesna has worked with this Canberra artistic group for over five years. Her artistic work comprising of poems and short stories has been published on the magazine's website. Vesna also writes short prose pieces, making a literary record of her interesting and unusual, sometimes traumatic but mostly happy life in both Serbia and Australia. She is in process of completing her own memoir about her life and settlement in Canberra, Australia, since 1990. Vesna loves reading creative non-fiction, biographies and memoirs. In times of sadness and challenge, she finds her solace in telling folk-stories from the Balkans to her family and friends.