Sam van Zweden

Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based freelance writer interested in experimental nonfiction, essays, mental health, body writing, food, and memory. Her collection of personal essays, Eating With My Mouth Open, won the 2019 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award, and was published in February 2021 by Newsouth Publishing. Sam’s writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others.

Works By Sam van Zweden

Learning to come back: On creativity and rest
Physical rest is emotional, whether you want it to be or not. Slowing down physically means the insides follow sometime after, though they cannot be rushed.
22 Aug. 2019

Works Featuring Sam van Zweden

Losing Hunger
Eating With My Mouth Open builds upon itself in a series of thematically connected essays that blend lived experience with research.
21 June. 2021

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Sam van Zweden

Works By Sam van Zweden

Learning to come back: On creativity and rest

Works Featuring Sam van Zweden

Losing Hunger