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2025 PROGRAM
Speaking the Unspoken
DATE:
Friday 20 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Sky Theatre
COST:
$25.00
conversation about writing fiction that confronts abuse, grooming, silence and shame. Mohammed Ahmad reflects
on the responsibilities of telling difficult stories, the line between imagination and lived experience, and the capacity of fiction to speak where other forms fail. Content note: This session includes discussion related to child abuse.
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.
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