As a mixed-race Tongan Australian kid growing up in Mt Druitt, Winnie Dunn thought her home was a place the arts came to die. She didn't access culturally diverse Australian writing in School or uni, and she'd never seen literature about Western Sydney written by people from Western Sydney.

That's until she joined Sweatshop Literacy Movement - a project devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse communities through reading, writing and critical thinking.

Today she is the Sweatshop General Manager, the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, and her writing has been published in The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Meanjin, SBS Voices, The Guardian and Huffington Post.

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