Arts
The Curtain Between, by Maryam Azam and first published in Seizure/Sweatshop's 'Stories of Sydney', depicts the budding of new love in two young university students. The young woman, our narrator, balances her romantic interest with cultural expectations, and the reveals how limitation can sometimes be fruitful. Maryam Azam is a Pakistani-Australian writer and teacher who lives and works in Western Sydney. She graduated with Honours in Creative Writing from Western Sydney University and is a recipient of the WestWords Emerging Writers’ Fellowship. She has performed her work at the Sydney Writers' Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival and is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Her debut collection is The Hijab Files (Giramondo, 2018). Photo by Ifrah Akhter on Unsplash.