Parramatta Literary Salon Omar Sakr in conversation with Chris Andrews
About this Event
Arts & Cultural Exchange presents Parramatta Literary Salon, a new literary event showcasing writers' body of work.
In November, we will feature award winning poet and writer Omar Sakr in conversation with Chris Andrews.
The in-depth conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Yasir Elgamil will perform their poetry work before the conversation.
About Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr is the author of four poetry collections, and a novel. His second collection, The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019) won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have featured in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Prairie Schooner, POETRY, Poetry London, and the Australian Book Review, among numerous other journals and anthologies around the world. In 2023 he received POETRY's Bess Hokin Prize for Poetry, and in 2024, the Copyright Agency's Non-Fiction Fellowship. His latest book is The Nightmare Sequence (Nightboat Books, 2025) which has been released in Australia, the UK, and the US, with an Italian edition forthcoming. Royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to Palestinian relief efforts. He is one of the inaugural 2026 NSW Stories Matter Literary Fellows, and lives on Dharug land with his wife and two children.
About Chris Andrews
Chris Andrews, who lives on Gadigal-Wangal land, writes poems and translates prose fiction. He's an adjunct associate professor at Western Sydney University. His most recent collection of poems is The Oblong Plot (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). His most recent translations are of Five by César Aira, I Don't Care by Ágota Kristóf, and You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi (all published by New Directions).
About Yasir Elgamil
Yasir Elgamil is an author, literary critic and researcher. Raised between Sudan and Dharug Country (Sydney), Yasir currently resides and writes in the latter. He is an English graduate of the University of Sydney with First Class Honours, and a recipient of the Dame Leonie Kramer Prize in Australian Poetry (2025) for his graduate thesis. His short stories have been published in Sweatshop Literacy Movement’s Povo (2023) and Love (2025).
This event is curated by acclaimed writer Yumna Kassab in collaboration with Arts & Cultural Exchange.
Our local bookstore Dymocks Parramatta will have books for sale available on the night at Arts & Cultural Exchange.
Event Details
When: Saturday 21st November 2026 | 2pm to 4pm
Where: Arts & Cultural Exchange, Parramatta
Tickets: $10.
Free for First Nations or people experiencing financial hardship. Please feel free to email: [email protected]
Lights refreshments will be provided.
This project has been supported through Creative Australia, Create NSW and Multicultural NSW.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 0.00 to AUD 11.90
