WEEK 3, SEM 2 2022 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Unwritten — The crisis in creative writing
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hen she sat down to craft her debut novel in 2020’s lockdown, months after finishing her undergraduate degree, Diana Reid had never considered a career in writing before. An incisive debut about the interplay of sexuality, feminism, and power at an Australian university campus, Love & Virtue (2021) surfaced to overflowing critical acclaim
and was named Book of the Year by the Australian publishing industry in June. But, in hindsight, it very well might not have been written. “It kind of terrifies me, actually,” Reid says. “I was so dependent on this very freak circumstance [lockdown] before I actually sat down and opened a blank word document.”
Zara Zadro stares at the blank page — continued on page 12.
NEWS, CULTURE & ANALYSIS
‘It’s my dream job. I don’t want to leave’: USyd’s students on entering an industry in crisis
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housands of workers in NSW have gone on strike this year. Various professions, most prominently teachers, nurses and rail workers, have shown that workers across the NSW public sector have felt systematically silenced, underpaid and exhausted after a brutal pandemic.
Jeffrey Khoo writes. — Page 7
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ALSO IN THIS EDITION: $520 on a taxi? USyd Execs’ expense reports: Wrapped - p. 9 Swinburne employees stood down - p. 5 NCIE’s future up in air- p. 11 Fed Uni reinstates Bachelor of Arts - p.4