Meet Rawah, Multilingual Writing Collective Lead at LOST IN BOOKS, Finishing School Collective

Rawah Arja has been shortlisted for the Charlotte Waring Barton Award CBCA NSW and has been signed for her debut YA novel by Giramondo Publishing, to be released in 2020. She is a part of the literary organisation Finishing School - a collective of women writers with strong connections to Western Sydney.

Rawah’s work has featured in the Arab-Australian-Other anthology by Picador, SBS Voices and the Sydney Writers’ Festival. She was as a successful recipient of the WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residential Program at The Writers’ House in Katoomba and has also featured at the Sydney Design Festival and ABC Radio.

Rawah has been featured in various panels at the Mudgee Readers’ Festival and is also a Youth Mentor, in addition to teaching creative writing at schools and facilitating after school writing workshops with WestWords.

Follow Rawah at @rawaharja

Rawah will be facilitating the Multilingual Writing Collective at LOST IN BOOKS.

WORKS

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'In her debut YA novel, Rawah Arja expertly expresses the difficulty of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood while navigating family, friendship, love and self-worth. Not just full of heart and the importance of community, Arja's novel is also honest...The F Team is an introspective and thought-provoking coming-of-age read.' — Books+Publishing
'Rawah Arja has written one of the best Australian novels I have ever read…not just because the writing sparkles even as it packs a punch, but because this is the kind of novel that shows us what Australia really is.' — Randa Abdel-Fattah
'A great novel, funny and authentic and full of characters I loved.' — Melina Marchetta, author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road
'Rawah Arja is an astounding new talent whose work will speak to young people everywhere. The F Team is a fresh, surprising work that is set to become a young adult classic.' — Felicity Castagna, author of No More Boats