2025 PROGRAM
Inheritance, Survival and Belonging
DATE:
Saturday 21 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Qi Yoga Studio
COST:
$25.00
What do we inherit from the lives our parents lived before us? How do those stories shape who we become? Antoun Issa and Daniel Nour reflect on family, migration, and the quiet legacies of survival. From humour and masculinity to war, displacement and renewal, both writers explore how identity is formed in the space between generations, cultures and expectations. A humane and intimate discussion about belonging and becoming oneself.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.