Saaro Umar (Australia) is a writer and artist based in Narrm/Melbourne. Saaro’s work has been published in Australian Poetry, Cordite, Scum and Expound. She placed runner up in the June Shenfield Poetry Award for Emerging Poets in 2016 and in the same year was the recipient of the Dorothy Hewett Fellowship. Saaro studies in the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) at RMIT.

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Indonesia 2018

In 2018 WrICE travelled to Indonesia with a group of writers from the region to take part in a collaborative residency in Yogyakarta, before appearing at a public festival in Jakarta, The Writers’ Series, with partner The Jakarta Post Writing Center, led by WrICE...