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Invisible Walls: Poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding (2022)
Invisible Walls is funded by the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF) and run in partnership between the University of South Australia and Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. The project is run by Dr Amelia Walker (UniSA), Prof Dan Disney (Sogang University), A/Prof Sue Joseph (UniSA), Prof Craig Batty(UniSA), and Mr Aden Burg (UniSA). Key Contact: Dr Amelia Walker amelia.walker@unisa.edu.au
What We Carry (2021)
What We Carry brings together the voices of more than 60 contemporary Australian poets to provide accounts of childbearing that are both lyrical and embodied. Featuring diverse voices and perspectives on experiences of infertility, conception, termination, loss, pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum period, this collection illuminates the endlessly different ways the potential to carry life is experienced. The poems invite you to share incredibly personal stories – some humourous, some sincere, some full of elation and love, others frustration or despair. They provide powerful insights into the potential for childbearing experiences to shape us, change the trajectories of our lives, and teach us about what it means to be human. For after all, all of us were carried, at the beginning. Edited by Ella Kurz, Simone King and Claire Delahunty
Vociferate|詠 (2021)
Emily’s debut poetry collection was published in mid-2021 by Fremantle Press. In 2022, Vociferate|詠 was awarded a Highly Commended in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and shortlisted in the WA Premier’s Book Award. Reviews See Vociferate Reviews and Media and teaching guide.
Author and Artist Profiles (2018-2021)
Select Talks/Workshops/Conferences 2018-2021)
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Poetry and Politics – Ubud Festival (2021) | |
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Democratising Poetry Perth Poetry Festival, 16–19th September 2021 2021 | |
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New Poetic Worlds (in conversation with Maddie Godfrey, Caitlin Mailing and Evelyn Araluen), Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival 14-16th May, 2021 | |
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2021 International AAA Professional Development Conference Poetry: Exploring inner worlds, March 2021. | |
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Cats and Treasures: Translanguaging in Poetry from k/now/here Rising Tides AAWP Conference, Griffith University, 16 Nov 2020.
Alternative Title: Poetry and Zozobra: Can we do something about the uneasiness? |
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From Shelley to me: Postcolonial Asian-Australian writing. Introduction to Literature, Performance and Text, Murdoch University (Perth), May 2020. | |
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Pierre Bourdieu’s Cultural Capital Theory: Key Concepts. Peripheral Visions AAWP Conference, Curtin University, 29 Nov 2018. | |
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Maybe it’s Wanchai? A Narrative (and Medicalised) response to the question; Where are you really from? – Intro. Where is Your Asia AASRN/UWA Institute of advanced studies, 24 Nov 2018. | |
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Vociferate| 詠： Poetry and translanguaging in multicultural Australia – CAWC Symposium, Curtin and Fudan University, 29 Nov 2019. | |
The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss (2019)
A selection of poetry, prose and memoir from 89 writers across Australia, this collection depicts loss as a disorienting force which pulsates through everyday life. Loss might be experienced through the death or absence of a loved one, as the loss of physical abilities through illness, or as the longing for a lost homeland. The collection registers loss as often nebulous and difficult to quantify, such as the loss of biodiversity – and life – through climate change, or the loss of a certain version of a future, for someone marrying whilst terminally ill. With contributors from Western Australia – such as Emily Sun, Rashida Murphy and Liana Joy Christensen – as well as Behrouz Boochani, and award winning Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckerman, this book might stand as a beacon for readers who have experienced, or are experiencing, grief. — WritingWA Review. Editors: Terry Whitebeach & Gina Mercer Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Kaleidoscope’: KSP Writers Centre (2019)
“And the wonderful spectrum of Ghost stories… Full of imagination and humour but in many cases with much research, most still managing to describe a Katharine that I could recognise. In EJ Sun’s “Points of view” the conversation between the writer* [sic] and Katharine when confronted with a royal wedding on social media is spot on Katharine!” —Karen Throssell See” Kaleidoscope: Colours of KSP 50th anniversary commemoration Launch Speech and The Red Witch by Nathan Hobby. “Points of View” (short-fiction)- Shortlisted[*protagonist or narrator]
Emily Needs Stem Cells (2013)
Emily Needs Stem Cells was an international campaign set up in 2013 after Emily had her second blood cancer relapse. See: https://www.urthecure.com.au/emilys-story
Emily was a published writer and had won awards for her writing before she was diagnosed with cancer; however, writing was always just a side-line hobby. It was not until she heard about the Deborah Cass Prize for Writing in 2018 and read about Deborah’s cancer story that she seriously thought about writing and publishing a book.
At the time, Emily thought that her first book would be Maybe It’s Wanchai, a fictionalised account of her cancer years, but Emily soon realised that she didn’t have the emotional energy nor the hindsight to write beyond the first few chapters. Instead, she decided to develop the poetry she’d written as chapter epigraphs.
[UR the Cure is an official partner of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and Strength to Give. Emily was also supported by the team at Other Half, a Canadian stem cell registry for Chinese Stem Cells.]
Please consider registering as a stem cell donor!
Culture is … Australian Stories Across Cultures: An Anthology (2008)
“These are the photographs we take …” [short-fiction]
Culture is…, edited by Anne-Marie Smith, features prose and poetry by a selection of Australian writers. Published in 2008, the collection includes earlier works of Bruce Pascoe, Lee Kofman, Grace Yee, and Rashida Murphy to name a few. An initiative of the Multicultural Writers Association of Australia, Culture Is … is a collection of vivid storytelling by established and emerging writers from around Australia, with a notable proportion of work from Indigenous Australians, South Australian, non-metropolitan writers, and women. Emerging writers are represented in the 45 selected pieces, which cover a range of authors from different linguistic origins. The 22 prose works, juxtaposed with 23 poems, have subtle contrasts and parallels. […] Significantly, several poems are bilingual and have been either translated from English into the author’s mother tongue or were written in a language other than English, then translated. These include poems in Chinese, Italian, Slovene and Spanish.’ — Wakefield Press
Growing up Asian in Australia (2008)
Growing up Asian in Australia was anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, interviews, and comic art edited by Alice Pung and published by Black Inc. Contributors include Shaun Tan, Kylie Kwong, Tony Ayres, Benjamin Law, Michelle Law, and Matt Huynh.
“These are the photographs we take …” [ version 2/short-fiction ]