Selected Speaking Engagements​​

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• Addi Rd Writers’ Festival, ‘Worlds Within Worlds’, in conversation with Sheila Ngọc Phạm, Addi Rd Community Centre, Marrickville, 20 May, 2023;

• Rose Scott Women Writers' Festival 'Creativity, Research, Craft' Panel with Mireille Juchau and Felicity Plunkett, The Women's Club, Sydney, 17 September, 2022;

• Sydney Writers Festival ‘Open Secrets’ Panel with Vanessa Berry and Eda Gunaydin, facilitated by Kate Fagan and presented with Sydney Review of Books, 22 May, 2022;

• State Library of NSW Sydney Review of Books 'Writing Under Lockdown', in conversation with Fiona Wright, moderated by Ivor Indyk, 22 July, 2021;

• Tell Me Your Story, Stories of the Indian Diaspora Series, in conversation with Sanchaiyata Majumdar and Ilhana Katoch, 2 April, 2021;

• LIMINAL X Mapping Melbourne Launch 'Time Series' with Elizabeth Tan, Anupama Pilbrow, Shirley Le, et al., hosted by Leah Jing McIntosh , 28 January, 2021;

• Brooklyn Book Festival 'Coming of Age in Challenging/Strange Times', in conversation with Romesh Gunesekera and Ivan Vladislavic, moderated by Eric Banks, 4 October, 2020;

• Inaugural Sydney PEN Open Mic Reading Series, 'Lockdown', with Special Guests Adam Aitken, Melissa Bruce, Jazz Money and Fatimah Abdulghafur, 29 June, 2020;

• Delegate, 10th Edition Goa Arts and Literature Festival December; 'Coconut Dreams', in conversation with Derek Mascarenhas; 'Goa Diaspora: Where Is Home', in conversation with Sujatha Fernandes, moderated by Jerry Pinto, 7 December, 2019;

• Fundação Oriente Chief Guest, Goan Short Stories Competition Award Ceremony, Goa, 29 November, 2019;

• Fundação Oriente 'In the Lands of Saudade: An Evening with Writer Suneeta Peres da Costa', in conversation with R. Benedito Ferrão, Goa, 28 November, 2019;

• Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 23-27 October, 2019; moderator, 'Location, Location, Location' with H.M. Naqvi, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Robbie Arnott and Guy Gunaratne, 24 October; panellist, 'Talking ‘Bout A Revolution' with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma and Azhari Aiyub, moderated by Norman Ince, 26 October;

• National Young Writers’ Festival Letter Writing Workshop with Emily Banyard and Julie Koh, presented by PEN Sydney in support of Behrouz Boochani and Manus Island detainees, Newcastle City Library, 5 October, 2019;

• Delegate, Asian-Australian Leadership Summit, State Library of Victoria, hosted by Asialink, The University of Melbourne, PwC and the Australian National University, 12-13 September, 2019;

• UNSWriting 'Writing Contemporary Australia', in conversation with Michelle de Kretser and Roanna Gonsalves, IO Myers Studio, UNSW, Sydney. March 28, 2019;

• Public Program of the Exhibition, Visions of Paradise: Indian Court Paintings, reading and discussion of ‘A Domestic Mishap’, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 20 January, 2019;

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• Carpe Diem Art & Learning Centre, co-convened with Jessica Faleiro and read at 'Poets & Writers Evening', with Savia Viegas, Salil Chaturvedi, Heta Pandit et al., Goa, December 9, 2018 (in support of ARZ Against Human Trafficking, Goa);

• Delegate, 2018 Goa Arts and Literary Festival, 4-7 December, 'Finding a Voice: Diaspora', in conversation with Usha Alexander and R. Benedito Ferrão, December 8, 2018;

• 2018 Goa Arts and Literary Festival Curtain Raiser, in conversation with Ana Filomena Amaral and Professor Delfim Correia da Silva, Centro de Língua Portuguesa, Instituto Camões, December 4, 2018;

• Australian and New Zealand Studies Centre, Key Note Address, Writing Saudade, Writing Exile, at the Symposium: Weaving Stories and Telling Poetry, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, October 17, 2018;

• St Bede’s College, Guest Writer, reading and discussion of Saudade, post-colonial literature & 'How to Develop a Writing Practice’, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, October 10, 2018;

• Orient BlackSwan launch Of Indian Origin: Writings from Australia, reading from ‘Dreamless’ and panel discussion with Drs Meenakshi Bharat and Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Miranda House, Delhi University, 1 October 2018;

• Cervantes Institute Long Night of European Literatures, featured writer (Portugal), reading and Q&A on Saudade, supported by the Instituto Camões, New Delhi, September 28, 2018;;

• The Giramondo Publishing Company launch of Saudade by Adam Aitken and reading, Gleebooks, March 24, 2018;

• Books & Arts interview with Sarah Kanowski, 'New Writing on Place in the Sydney Review of Books' with Vanessa Berry and Catriona Menzies-Pike, ABC Radio National, November 18, 2016;

• New Geographies panellist, ‘Crossing’, with Peter Minter, Ali Cobby Eckermann & Luke Carman, chaired by Ivor Indyk, convened by The Writing & Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Bankstown Arts Centre, November 12, 2016;

• Subcontinent Book Club: Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, in conversation with Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan, R. Benedito Ferrão and Michelle Cahill, interviewed by Michael Cathcart, ABC Radio National, first broadcast 27 March, 2015; excerpted on Books Plus, 12 April 2015;

• Sydney Writers’ Festival Launch of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, published by Puncher & Wattmann; readings of ‘The Changed Woman’ and ‘The Mirror Man’, 24 May, 2013’;

• Delegate, Australia-India Literatures International Forum (an initiative of the Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney),  4-6 September, 2012; panellist, ‘Questions of Time and Travel’, with Michelle de Kretser, N S Madhavan & Uday Prakash, chaired by Vijay Mishra, State Library of NSW, 5 September, 2012.