Drey is a latinx creative whose work has featured in literary magazines and exhibitions like Overland, EWF’19, Yo Soy, the Australian Multilingual Writers Project and Blak Dot Gallery (ISTHMUS, Dr Tania Canas).
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Drey Mendez
Coming of Age in the Wild West
What does it mean to write the place you have lived? How do you harness the streets you have walked, and reflect back the people around you with care and consideration? In this special discussion event, these western suburbs writers come together to talk about the place, and the responsibility of writing it.
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