Saturday 13 September, 11AM-1PM
Alcoves & Partnered Event
Personal Histories
In this workshop, award winning writer Maha Sidaoui will guide you through the art of life writing—drawing from memory, cultural identity, and personal history to tell stories that matter.
Through guided writing exercises, group sharing, and discussions, dive into a space where lived experience becomes literature. For writers who are just starting out, to those who have been writing for years.
This event is in partnership with Hobsons Bay Library Service.
Pay-What-You-Wish
Altona Library, Meeting Room 1
123 Queen St, Altona VIC 3018
Featuring...
Maha Sidaoui
Maha Sidaoui is a Lebanese-Australian writer who mines her cultural confusion, sexuality and poor life choices for stories, because why waste a good identity crisis? Her screenplay One Arabian Girl picked up a few awards before she decided to turn it into a manuscript, which now haunts her like an unused twelve month gym membership. […]
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