In this minisode from FWF 2018 Legacy Books, Jamila Rizvi talks about the power of the imagination and how books helped her find her place in the world.
“I didn’t have a type or even a favourite genre, I read and loved everything I could get my hands on. Perhaps the only common thread was that all my favourite books featured women and girls.”
In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Foong Ling Kong talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing. Foong grew up reading all the English classics like Little Women and Jane Eyre and identifying with the female leads, however at university she found...
In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Kerryn Goldsworthy talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing. She discovered how women had lived in the past through fiction, Come In Spinner examined “examined what it was like for women left behind at home,...
In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Ruby Hamad talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing. Her picks are Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, of which she says: 'So profound was its impact on me that Behind the Scenes at the Museum...