Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Byron Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Arakwal Bumberbin Peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the original storytellers of the lands and waterways of this Country.

Writer

Marika Sosnowski

Marika Sosnowski is a legal anthropologist and the granddaughter of Polish and Dutch Holocaust survivors. She went to Syria in 2007, and has worked on its revolution, war, governance and legal systems ever since. She is author of 58 Facets.

Byron Writers Festival '25

Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country

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