https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2020-06-02 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/t/5ed5cf110e556604eb137c55/1591070357881/ New Gallery https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/5ed5ce402ddad14161b6ba7d/5ed5ce954de252673645b747/1591070357881/ New Gallery https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/liana daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/about daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1596610087988-DM462W1GULKYHV85RODA/Eda%2BGunaydin.jpg About - Eda Gunaydin Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist and researcher whose writing explores class, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. Her collection Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth Publishing) won the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Prize for New Writer of the Year at the 2023 ABIAs. Her essays have been published in the Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, Liminal, Meanjin, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1596610418983-WS5IAHGWVM9IN18U92P6/Hajer.jpg About - Hajer Hajer is a writer, actress and founder of the 'Iraqi Diaspora Creatives Network' an Instagram page showcasing Iraqi creatives across the globe. Hajer's writing explores the experiences of womanhood, messy friendships and everyone’s favourite topic--dysfunctional families. She is currently writing a novel that has been long listed for the Richell Prize. Hajer produces an arts event called Sahra Salon. She is also part of the core directorship of the Finishing School Collective. In 2023, she will direct the inaugural SWANA Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1596610663954-YQOOJ62ETFX7R0E1XKOG/Sheila%2BPham.jpg About - Sheila Ngoc Pham Sheila Ngọc Phạm is an independent writer, editor and producer. She has written for a wide range of Australian and international publications and is currently a Contributing Editor for diaCRITICS, the online journal for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. Sheila is an Advisory Board Member for Sydney Review of Books and has twice judged the NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction as well as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Multicultural NSW Award. In 2023, she was runner-up in the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and in 2021, she was a finalist for the Walkley-Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism and the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. She is currently finalising a PhD at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and casually lectures in public health ethics at Macquarie University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1596610167161-HA2SIDKN7T3LOTYS6R27/Felicity%2BCastagna.jpg About - Felicity Castagna Felicity Castagna has published four novels for adults and young adults including her most recent book, Girls In Boys’ Cars (2021, Pan Macmillan) which received The Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for YA and was adapted into a stage play by Priscilla Jackman for The National Theatre of Parramatta. It is soon to become a major film. Her previous novel, No More Boats (2017, Giramondo) was a finalist in the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Awards and is published internationally by Europa. Her young adult novel The Incredible Here and Now (2014, Giramondo) received The Prime Minister’s Award for Young Adult Literature. She has worked with artists in many different fields to produce cross-artform collaborations, theatre and installation for major festivals including The Sydney Festival, The Sydney Opera House and The Adelaide Festival. Her creative non-fiction and critical responses to literature and art are published both here and internationally on platforms such as The Sydney Review of Books, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Griffith Review and ABC radio and television. Castagna is a highly experienced teacher, speaker, writing mentor and teacher educator who has facilitated workshops everywhere from schools to community arts centres to correctional centres. She has helped to establish, promote and run many writing and storytelling programs. She is currently a Senior Lecturer with The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University where she is the course convenor for Creative Writing. https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/welcome daily 1.0 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1584011515711-73R9DYMYYF5I1WLERFZ8/Studio+Stories+Sahra+Salon+Photo+by+Andrew+Vincent+Photography+2.jpg Watch this space - Sahra Salon An intimate event focused on complicated and nuanced stories of the diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/d1d03295-e675-432e-9623-f9ab130e051d/058_EatYourWords_SWF_PAS_Granville.jpg Watch this space - Eat Your Words At night of eating, storytelling and community held at The Parramatta Artists’ Studios in Granville for The Sydney Writers Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1584010844867-EJSZ2912UIIPEN4RAZIG/Studio+Stories+Eat%2C+Talk%2C+Dance+credit+Jacquie+Manning.jpg Watch this space - Eat, Talk, Dance A multi-site performance for The Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/4ce0bb3b-0077-47e4-b79f-67412c739f56/Sarah+Malik.JPG Watch this space - Provocations A night of provocative stories for The Sydney Writer’s Festival featuring Mohammad Awad, Felicity Castagna, Lanneika Denne, Gabriel Faatau’uu-Satiu, Eda Gunaydin, George Haddad, Sarah Malik, Smitha Peter, and Geneva Valek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/fc40ebb1-a74f-42e8-89b5-3681f91f882b/Root+and+Branch+smaller.jfif Watch this space - Holding The Space Place is one of our makers. It shapes who we are and helps us form friendships, our politics, sense of community and identity. For our last Sydney Writer’s Festival event we hosted poet, legal scholar and essayist Alison Whittaker; writer, critic and visual artist Anwen Crawford; and essayist Eda Gunaydin for an evening of stories, provocations and talks about what it means to be here. MC’d by Maeve Marsden. We were also held an afterparty hosted by DJ and performance artist Ilhan Abdi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/132f9125-86c9-4717-b077-3b0e4a3b9d84/Art_lives_here5.jpg Watch this space - Art Lives Here In an innovative collaboration between The Finishing School, Parramatta Artists’ Studio and Griffith Review, five writers explore the work of five artists in a series of conversations about creation, imagery, imagination, power and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/2244a330-dbf5-45ea-92f5-8707ebe20bd9/WhatsApp+Image+2023-06-15+at+19.44.18.jpg Watch this space - Space and Light, UTS Space and Light is a textual installation across four levels of UTS library which responds to the architecture and people inside it. Featuring Marian Abboud and The Seed of Hope Collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1606299432353-ICVELVKIWJSWA3NRYZP9/collage.jpg Watch this space - Books and Books and Books and More Books Rawah Arja’s book The F Team is killing it everywhere, Chloe Higgin’s The Girls is being shortlisted for everything. Eda Gunaydin just released Root and Branch, her much anticipated collection of essays. Faith Chaza, Sheila Pham and Felicity Castagna are putting the finishing touches on their collective novel and there’s more to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1596601401684-HLPP6KCXZLZAEAM8PJ4X/alleyway.jpg Watch this space - Sounds/Words Project Five writers. Five electronica artists. Five different spaces. Listen. Move. Talk. Featuring sounds by The New Age Noise Collective and words by The Finishing School and special guests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/d762381f-39a4-40bc-a07c-cbe33b81e805/Artists+for+Turkei+and+Syria+Event.jpg Watch this space - Artists for Türkiye and Syria Turkish Australian writer Deniz Ağraz has curated this intimate event, which will feature live performances by musicians, writers and artists to raise funds for earthquake victims in Turkiye and Syria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1584011259747-YG3BH60QJU5VXVL33UVF/Collective+at+Mudgee+Readers%27+Festival.jpg Watch this space - Mudgee Readers’ Festival We were featured in many panels in this great regional literary festival. We love Mudgee and all the great conversations we had there! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1584010506929-YGPFKEABG427M7TQ89GJ/The+Long+Table+event+for+Art+Month.+The+Finishing+School+Collaborated+with+Weave+Collective.+photo+credit+by+Jaquie+Manning.jpg Watch this space - The Long Table A collaboration with Parramatta Weave for Art Month. This event was a finalist in The Imagine Awards for best project in an art gallery in NSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/37a6517f-8835-4c20-b678-a4b171c699bf/4.jpg Watch this space - Hidden Begginings A night of stories that begin at the end in collaboration with The Parramatta Artists’ Studios in Graville and The Sydney Writers Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1699142346220-3P7YWUW8X9OFUJQODOPZ/Sounds+Words+Block+Party+2020.jpg Watch this space https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1490917950755-98EOHO9RGWX3GWFKURGG/lips.png Contact https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/brittany-and-liliana daily 0.75 2020-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095459691-I2D4GYNP3S9UZGS8N5V7/From+Lili+to+Brittany.+Letter+One.+Part+One.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095478357-3XNXPRA2BCSI3L6FHYLM/From+Lili+to+Brittany.+Letter+One.+Part+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095344175-JXLPC4TPFCU5XBAUJRFK/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+One.+Part+One.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095398954-RSPLYHVY6S2GYSTFXPLD/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+One.+Part+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095354357-45E174SJ7F50QZO66KLZ/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+One.+Part+Three.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095306277-6DXTRNN5BQC39NTZ1J35/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+One.+Part+Four.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095296632-QM4MEZUAWMNJ9WHGBSGJ/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+One.+Part+Five.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095495215-4TI6FXMB8IKZ17ZE5CPN/From+Lili+to+Brittany.+Letter+Two.+Part+One.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095501085-0PL2WKBS1GWYSLYULUI4/From+Lili+to+Brittany.+Letter+Two.+Part+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095477531-N81AC7X1R6VOZ64LVQZJ/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095488005-VWYK624DDBE5Y31KADJT/From+Lili+to+Brittany.+Letter+Three.+Part+One.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095492696-TFAV4SPC86C68378A5KS/From+Lili+to+Brittany.+Letter+Three.+Part+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095402826-HHI2C7M188A5T0H3ZPDN/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+Three+Excerpt+1.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095250051-PZMYB8V5NS2VB0S0CK7R/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+Four.+Part+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095251277-OAGVX6J93J0L9NGZVUY2/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+Four.+Part+One.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58da3ce43a0411e118c40709/1591095451279-T6CMPRK955S9ATXB8TMG/From+Brittany+to+Lili.+Letter+Three+Excerpt+Two.jpg Brittany and Liliana https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/ailsa-and-rawah daily 0.75 2020-06-02 https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/yumna-kassab-and-xiaoran-shi daily 0.75 2021-03-13 https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/hajer-and-faith daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://www.finishingschoolcollective.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377096507573-1MU42OOOOGIM9URAJ9D9/515c4225e4b0afec1218b21e.png Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377096775448-0L7B4Q54H1VLOGFF1DPR/synthetica+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377097104716-HDI53XJVV0DKZ24A3T68/51e453dee4b06abd3403c22e.png Read Me