Yasmin Tambiah wins writers competition

Dr Yasmin Tambiah with trees in the background. ICS researcher Dr Yasmin Tambiah has won first place in ZineWest 2013, a publication and competition for emerging Western Sydney writers co-sponsored by NEW Writer's Group Inc and the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney.

Yasmin's piece, A Shore Distant was announced as the winner of the 'best prose' category during the award ceremony on 12 October.

The 257-word prose explores the story of a woman of later years displaced from her community.

Acclaimed writer and poet Fiona Wright judged the competition.

Read Yasmin's award-winning piece, A Shore Distant (opens in a new window).

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The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.