EVENTS
November 2024
Memoir and Life-Writing, Kilcoy Library, QLD
Memoir and Life-Writing, Esk Library, QLD
Panellist, ‘Write Side of History’, Muslim Agenda Festival at The Immigration Museum, Melbourne VIC
October 2024
Feature Poet, Women of the World event with WOW Founder Jude Kelly CBE. Brisbane, QLD
Memoir and Life-Writing Workshop, Charleville QLD
Guest Speaker, Runway Journal 48: Groundswell Launch at Black Spark, Melbourne VIC
September 2024
Guest Lecturer: Creative Industries at JMC Academy
Creative Writing Workshop Session #2: Bonnyrigg High School (Story Factory) Sydney NSW
Telling Our Stories to the World, Goondiwindi Workshop (Queensland Writer’s Centre) QLD
August 2024
Speaker, ‘Publishing Complex & Sensitive Content’ BookUp Publishers Conference, Melbourne VIC
Creative Writing Workshop Series at Bonnyrigg High School (Story Factory), Sydney NSW
May 2024
Panellist, ‘Who Gets to be Human’ with Ziggy Ramo and Chelsea Watego, Melbourne Writer’s Festival VIC
Writing with Family Workshop, Melbourne Writers Festival VIC
Poetry Workshop with Indigenous Elders Writing Club, Inala Wangarra QLD
April 2024
Memoir Masterclass: Memoir and Counter-Memory at Queensland Writer’s Centre
Memoir and Life-Writing Masterclass, Nerang Library (Gold Coast) QLD
March 2024
Stay Connected Workshop Series for the Maranoa Region (Roma, Injune, Surat and Mitchell) with Queensland Writer’s Centre
Griffith University, Guest Lecturer for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Week
February 2024
In-Conversation with Jumaana Abdu at Sydney Muslim Writer’s Festival, NSW
Creative Writing Workshop for O-Week. The Carumba Institute at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) QLD
October 2023
Feature Poet, Voices Shaping the Future Panel, Women of the World Festival QLD
September 2023
‘Navigating Two Worlds’ with Dr. Lana Tatour at University of New South Wales, Centre for Ideas
Listen to conversation via UNSW: Creative Ideas podcast
Creative Writing Workshop for HDR Students, The Carumba Institute at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
July 2023
Radical Remembering Writing Workshop, Enough Said Books, Port Kembla NSW
In-Conversation with Lorin Reid at Enough Said Books, Port Kembla NSW
Feature Poet, Enough Said! Poetry Slam, Wollongong NSW
Feature Poet, Bankstown Poetry Slam, Sydney NSW
In-Conversation with Sara M. Saleh for ‘The Shape of Dust’ at Better Read than Dead, Sydney NSW
Book Launch for ‘The Shape of Dust’ (Pantera Press) at Avid Reader, Brisbane QLD
Counter-Memory and Memoir Writing, Institute for Collaborative Race Research, Brisbane QLD
June 2023
Radical Memoir Writing, Emerging Writers Festival, Melbourne VIC
Memoir Writing with Indigenous Elders Writing Club, Inala Wangarra QLD
Radical Memoir Writing, Enough Said Books, Port Kembla NSW
Oct 2022
Radical Memoir Writing, Pilot Workshop delivered online (as part of Creative Australia Literature Grant outcome)
Nov 2021
Memoir Writing & Political Story-Telling (Online Workshop) with Ferien Vom Krieg, GERMANY.
July 2021
Write, Speak, Breathe: Writing and Performance Workshop at Logan City Library, QLD
WRITING
Books
The Shape of Dust, Pantera Press (2023)
National Biography of the Year Award, NSW State Library 2024
Shortlist, NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2024
Poetry
Griefscape with Han Reardon-Smith, Runway Journal 48. Edited by Maya Hodge
Here, At Home, Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity. Ed. by Sara Saleh & Randa Abdel-Fattah, PanMacmillan Press
Select Articles
‘All that would have been possible did she live that night: a retrospective on Khadija Saye.’ Arts of the Working Class: Sports & Disability, Winter Edition 2022
‘Imperfect Commodity, Imperfect Care: Interview with Nour Shantout’, Arts of the Working Class: Kindness & Destruction, Fall Edition 2022
Testimonials
“Lamisse is an exceptional editor and writing mentor who always has your best interests at heart. She understands the ins and outs of what makes great writing, and she shares this knowledge generously. Her feedback, both constructive and supportive, is invaluable for any writer's artistic development.” Becca Wang, writer & winner of RUSSH Literary Showcase 2024
“Your speech was intellect and passion personified, a searing sucker punch to complacency. I went straight off and bought your book.” Audience comment, Melbourne Writer’s Festival 2024
“The Shape of Dust is urgent, experimental, self-reflexive. It bristles with a sense of injustice and trauma and is determined not to reinscribe these indignities in telling the tale. This work will resonate with many Australian readers, including those whose identities are linked to places beyond Australia’s borders.” - Dr. Melinda Harvey, Senior Judge National Biography Awards 2024