The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.

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Sanya Rushdi

Sanya Rushdi is the middle of three daughters of Ali Ahmed Rushdi and Sultana Rushdi. She completed most of her primary schooling in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and part of her primary schooling in Australia. She completed her secondary and tertiary education mostly in Melbourne, Australia, where she has been living since 1989. Part of her higher education was in Sydney, Australia, where she lived for almost three years. She is interested in developmental psychology and the work of the later Ludwig Wittgenstein. Sanya likes to sketch, do illustrative artwork, listen to music, and engage in philosophical thinking. ‘Hospital’ is her first novel.