In August of this year, we presented Liminal Festival in partnership with The Wheeler Centre. Together, we contemplated and unsettled the function of language in the culture around us. Now, we invite you to enter the space once more through responses and recordings. In creating this archive of gathering, we challenge the illusion that an event truly ends. Instead, it continues in memory and documentation, expanding and thrumming through ripples.  Read more →

 
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2025 Liminal x Hyphenated projects writing fellowship

The Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellowship offers an early-career writer the opportunity to undertake a self-directed residency at Hyphenated Projects, with a stipend of $1500.

Running for the third time, this fellowship is the only writing residency offered specifically to Asian Australian writers on this continent. We welcome applications from writers of all genres; previous winners include nonfiction writer Jinghua Qian (2020) and poet Shastra Deo (2024).

learn more and apply here →

 
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Slow Currents at the Asian American Literature Festival
September 14—22, 2024

Join us for the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival, a historic multi-city gathering designed to support and nurture Asian American literature and the literary community. The Slow Currents International Writing Workshop presents three conversations produced across Aotearoa, Australia and America.

Join poets Hasib Hourani and Cathy Linh Che for Writing into Silence, a conversation between poets Hasib Hourani + Cathy Linh Che about writing into the wound, explorations with form, and the state of literature in Australia and the US.

Saraid de Silva and Gowri Koneswaran discuss grief, rage, and writing across Sri Lanka’s diaspora in Violence, Justice + Ghosts.

Make your Best Bets with Chris Tse and Panda Wong, the first (ever!) Asian diaspora editors of Best New Zealand Poems and Best of Australian Poems.

Find out more at asianamericanliteraturefestival.org/

 
 

Interviews

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Notes

Playlist

A Liminal Podcast by Lisa Divissi

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