The partnership between the Sydney Writers’ Festival and the State Library of NSW will deliver a year-round program of literary events in addition to its annual Festival, beginning this September 2025.
The $1.5 million initiative is the first part of a sector-wide strategy to position writing and literature at the heart of NSW’s cultural, educational and economic life.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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