Sweatshop Women
Volume One
An important collection by First Nations women and women of colour acclaimed by The Sydney Morning Herald as a showcase of 'urgent stories that need to be reckoned with'.
Sweatshop Women is an exciting and contemporary collection of prose and poetry written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. In the first volume of this urgent new series, the diverse women of Western Sydney reclaim their stories of love, faith, home and history. Featuring Joy Adan, Christine Afoa, Sydnye Allen, Ferdous Bahar, Claire Cao, Aisha El-Cheikh, Janette Chen, Monikka Eliah, Natalia Figueroa Barroso, Phoebe Grainer, Raveena Grover, Naima Ibrahim, Meyrnah Khodr, Shirley Le, Elaine Lim, Rachel Marie, Jessicca Wendy Mensah, Gayatri Nair, Lieu-Chi Nguyen, Bethany Pal, Christine Shamista, Divya Venkataraman, Diane Wanasawek and Annie XY Zhang. Foreword by Michelle Law.
Winnie Dunn is the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, including Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). She is a writer of Tongan descent from Mount Druitt and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Sydney University. She is currently completing her debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette, 2023), which has been assisted by the Australia Council for the Arts.