Food for thought
Sam van Zweden with Fiona Wright
Date:  Saturday 9 October 2021
Time: 14.30 - 15.30 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
In her personal and cultural exploration of what it means to eat in the broken food system within which we live, Sam van Zweden doesn’t hold back from exploring the links between food and family, food and mental illness, between trauma but also talks about hunger, about the pleasure and joy of eating. She is in conversation with Fiona Wright.
Participants
Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, food, mental health and the body. Her writing has been published by The Saturday Paper, ABC Life, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Her book, Eating with my Mouth Open, won the 2019 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award and was published in February 2021.
Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her most recent book of essays, The World Was Whole, was published in October 2018. Fiona is the host of Six Degrees From the City, a podcast about writers and Western Sydney. She tutors in creative writing, journalism and literature at Western Sydney University, and has taught creative non-fiction at UTS and Sydney University. She also runs writing workshops in high schools, libraries and for writers' centres, and performs her work frequently at literary events and festivals.
Festival Program 2021