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Claire Lehmann

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Claire Lehmann

Claire Lehmann is the founding editor of Quillette, a magazine dedicated to the exchange of ideas, free expression and civil debate.

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RT @2Josie2Jocelyn: This is tomorrow; I'll be on stage :) if you're there, come along. Thank you to @wheelercentre and @SydWritersFest for…

20 May 2022

“When I started my PhD, they told me that there was no research on the topic...but there was.” – @EvelynAraluen on… https://t.co/ZVFizpo95Y

20 May 2022

“It took me years to find the research, all of the Black writing about Black writing, but there was no support.” –… https://t.co/0hepDKskFq

20 May 2022

“I put poems in there that I’m scared of.” – @EvelynAraluen on Dropbear #2022StellaPrize #SydneyWritersFestival

20 May 2022

“I can go home and see family but it’s not the same home as I grew up in…as a result of an industrial push.” –… https://t.co/fDhmnWDB5T

20 May 2022

“Mum and dad were so committed to giving us books because they didn’t have any when they were growing up…I imagine… https://t.co/jacyCg1l97

20 May 2022

“I needed to go to a new school, I’d run out of schools in the district – the Hawkesbury is a very racist place.” –… https://t.co/QOLsANhAa5

20 May 2022

“I would read these poems about ‘Council of Dingo Elders’ and it was always an appropriation of our deeply spiritua… https://t.co/8i6NtmAjPO

20 May 2022

RT @UTSFass: 4pm today. Sydney @UtsWriting fans - if you couldn't get to Melissa Lucashenko's @SydWritersFest mid-week events, knock off ea…

20 May 2022

“[They] just essentialise it down to this silly ironic…conceptual poem about a wallaby and are not thinking that th… https://t.co/p31GkuuyZO

20 May 2022

“Reading poems that were presenting the point of view of animals, particularly of animals that were linked to my fa… https://t.co/CSw53dwyT5

20 May 2022

“This is not a new tradition…taking the broad tropes from the centre of the colony…and then just dumping them in th… https://t.co/XYloaDTL3Q

20 May 2022

“The majority of those poems were floating islands for me.” @EvelynAraluen on writing Dropbear #2022StellaPrize #SydneyWritersFestival

20 May 2022

“A lot of these poems are documents of that research period, the institutional requirements…it doesn’t leave room f… https://t.co/yi6tiB2SZd

20 May 2022

“It’s a weird little para-textual account of someone who ostensibly raised quite closely with Australian literature… https://t.co/LQ4aT4kU22

20 May 2022

"Now the book feels more legitimate and coherent than the context that necessarily gave rise to it….The work of Dro… https://t.co/n2w1gRrUPy

20 May 2022

“I can probably have a day off a week to write, which is legitimately something I’ve never had in my life.” –… https://t.co/baMIgI1s9V

20 May 2022

“I don’t really know very many people who were able to build a literary practice…who didn’t go through a period of… https://t.co/VUie1s1RrP

20 May 2022

“The entire structure of the arts in Australia is predicated on unpaid labour.” – @EvelynAraluen #2022StellaPrize #SydneyWritersFestival

20 May 2022

“The short answer is we need a revolution, clearly.” – Melissa Lucashenko on unpaid labour in Australia #SydneyWritersFestival

20 May 2022

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