Photo Credit: Public Program, Visions of Paradise, National Gallery of Victoria, January 2019

Selected Speaking Engagements

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• 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' with Fiona Wright in Conversation with Ivor Indyk, July 22, 2021;

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

• LIMINAL X Mapping Melbourne Launch 'Time Series', reading of 'Line in the Sand', January 28, 2021;

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

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

• Delegate, 10th Edition Goa Arts and Literature Festival December 5-7, 2019; In Conversation with Derek Mascarenhas, Coconut Dreams; In Conversation with Sujatha Fernandes and Jerry Pinto;

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

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

• Guest Writer, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 23-27 October 2019; Moderator for Location, Location, Location, 24 October & Panellist, Talking ‘Bout a Revolution, 26 October, 2019;

• Newcastle Young Writers’ Festival Letter Writing Workshop Presented by PEN Sydney in support of Behrouz Boochani and Manus Island detainees. Newcastle City Library, October 5, 2019;

• Delegate, Asian-Australian Leadership Forum, 12-13 September, 2019, State Library of Victoria, Hosted by Asialink, The University of Melbourne, PwC & Australian National University;

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

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

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• Co-convened and Read at Poets & Writers Evening, Carpe Diem Art & Learning Centre, Goa, December 9, 2018 (in support of ARZ Against Human Trafficking, Goa);

• Delegate, 2018 Goa Arts and Literary Festival December 6-8, In Conversation with Usha Alexander and R. Benedito Ferrão on the Panel, Finding a Voice: Diaspora, December 8, 2018;

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

• Key Note Address, Saudade as a Novella of the Indo-Portuguese Diaspora & Creative Writing Workshop: ‘Writing Exile’ at the Symposium: Weaving Stories and Telling Poetry, Australian and New Zealand Studies Centre, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, October 17, 2018;

• Reading and Discussion of Saudade, Postcolonial Writing & Post-Independence India & Q&A, ‘How to Develop a Writing Practice’, St Bede’s College, Shimla, October 10, 2018;

• Launch, Of Indian Origin: Writings from Australia, Published by Orient BlackSwan, Reading from ‘Dreamless’ and Panel Discussion on Australian Indian Writing with Drs Meenakshi Bharat and Dr Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Miranda House Delhi University, October 1, 2018;

• Featured Writer (Portugal), Reading and Q&A on Saudade at the Long Night of European Literatures, Cervantes Institute, New Delhi, September 28, 2018;

• In Conversation with Roanna Gonsalves: Subcontinental Migrant Women’s Identity and Writing about Diaspora: Reflections on The Permanent Resident & Saudade, at Better Read Than Dead Bookstore, Newtown, Sydney, June 28, 2018;

• Launch of Saudade by Giramondo, Gleebooks, March 24, 2018;

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

• Panellist, ‘Crossings’ in New Geographies, Discussion of ‘A Home in Ananda and the World’, Convened by the Writing & Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Bankstown Arts Centre, November 12, 2016;

• ABC Radio National 2015 Subcontinent Book Club; Discussion of A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, first broadcast 27th March, 2015; excerpted on Radio National Books Plus, first broadcast on 12th April 2015;

• Delegate, Goa Arts and Literary Festival, 4-7 December 2014, In Conversation with Ulrike Rodrigues, ‘Goa: The Diaspora Writes Back’ and ‘Media 2014: Golden Age of Little and Literary Magazines?’;

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

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