Short Story - Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable joins us for his 11th year of judging the short story category.
Arnold is a storyteller, educator and human rights advocate. Formerly a lecturer in the Arts Faculty in Melbourne University, Arnold has worked in the USA, Papua New Guinea, China and many parts of Europe and southeast Asia. His books include Jewels and Ashes, which won 5 Australian literary, Wanderers and Dreamers, Café Scheherazade, The Fig Tree, and Scraps of Heaven. His novel Sea of Many Returns, had just been released.
Arnold is the author of numerous feature articles, columns, short stories, reviews and essays. His work regularly appears in The Age and a range of journals. He has written several works for theatre, and was a co-writer of the pay Kan Yama Kan, in which asylum seekers tell their stories.
Arnold speaks and writes with passion about memory history, displacement and community. He has conducted numerous writing workshops and has been a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Deakin, Melbourne, Monash, RMIT, La Trobe and Victoria universities.
He is a compelling storyteller who has performed in many venues in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Hobart, Adelaide and regional areas. His shows include Wanderers & Dreamers, tales of Yiddish theatre, and more recently, Anytime The Wind Can Change, tales of immigrant journeys, performed with singer-songwriter Kavisha Mazzella. In 1998 he worked with curators to produce the script for Victoria's Immigration Museum.
Arnold is a patron of the Eastweb Foundation and the Victorian Storytellers Guild, a member of the Immigration Museum Advisory Committee, and President of International PEN Melbourne. He was recently awarded a doctorate in the School of Creative Arts, Melbourne University.
