History is happening right now - it’s alive and all around us, and it rarely fits into a linear narrative. Hear from two writers who rewrote what a memoir can be, weaving together stories of people, place and finding home in their remarkable, award-winning works of narrative non-fiction.

We Come With This Place is a deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs - an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people. Winner of an unprecedented four NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Book of the Year, the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, the Indigenous Writers' Prize and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing), winner of the 2023 ALS Gold Medal and The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award, and shortlisted across the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and Stella Prize.

In Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family, Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects. This is a book about the gaps and blank spaces that cannot be easily recounted, but which insists on the vibrant reality of chance, fragments and memory to reclaim a place called home. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the NSW Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, the National Biography Awards Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work, and shortlisted across the SA, QLD and NSW Literary Awards and longlisted for the Stella Prize.

With Debra Dank and Micaela Sahhar.