Tweets

by Sonia Nair

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We asked Sonia Nair to capture the Liminal Festival in real time. Click the tweets below to read her observations.

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Kicking us off today are @evelynaraluen, Mykaela Saunders and @hellohourani, who will discuss the careful craft of shaping a language unsettled in Language Under Occupation #liminalfestival pic.twitter.com/Lv6TqT4WgA

— L I M I N A L (@liminalmag) August 3, 2024

Next up is Bella Li and Lucy Van thinking through poetics, histories, and how to wield language on one’s own terms in Visions and Revisions, hosted by @sprezzafuror #liminalfestival pic.twitter.com/YCvf2rdJN0

— L I M I N A L (@liminalmag) August 3, 2024

The first of our afternoon sessions, The Novel, features Jessica Au, Brian Castro and André Dao contemplating the novel, the nation and its literature with @lyndang #liminalfestival pic.twitter.com/ShvSEaBGoQ

— L I M I N A L (@liminalmag) August 3, 2024

.@eda__gunaydin, @mxcreant and @mlchaelsun examine the present state and potential futures of literary criticism in Critical Limit #liminalfestival pic.twitter.com/QuItWAhymP

— L I M I N A L (@liminalmag) August 3, 2024

And in our last session of the day, Writing Utopia: Poetics, Futurity & Friendship, @rat_steak and @__eaeolian move between performance and conversation to consider writing and reading as collaborative experiments #liminalfestival pic.twitter.com/WhM6pW2CQA

— L I M I N A L (@liminalmag) August 3, 2024

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Sonia Nair is a Melbourne-based writer and critic. She has written for The Lifted Brow, The Big Issue, the Australian Book Review, The Wheeler Centre and others. She tweets @son_nair and blogs at whateverfloatsyourbloat.com.  

The Liminal Festival took place 2–4 August 2024, in partnership with The Wheeler Centre. This collection of work is in concert with, and responds to, the panels, conversations and provocations put forth by some of the nation’s most talented writers, artists and thinkers. Find out more about the Liminal Festival here.

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