Academy Live! November with Vahida Berberovic

Join us this November for Academy Live - at Old Government House in Parramatta Park! Members of our WestWords Academy, alumni and current, will perform excerpts of their new poetry and prose. Members of the public are welcome to come along and hear Western Sydney's rising artists. This is the final Academy Live of 2026! Drinks and finger food provided. 6pm door for a 6.30pm start. Host for the evening, and the event's featured writer is Vahida Berberovic. Vahida Berberovic is a writer of contemporary fiction and teacher of English and Communications. She is a refugee from Bosnia, and her writing explores displacement, the patriarchy and the quiet resilience of survivors shaped by war. She has been awarded an international writing residency at the Vermont Studio Centre and a writing residency at the Varuna: the National Writers' House. Her fiction and poetry have been published in a range of literary magazines and anthologies. Vahida Berberovic is the inaugural winner of the WestWords Prize for this, her debut novel, Where the Soil Remembers. Copies of Where the Soil Remembers will be available for purchase followed by a book signing by the author.