Adalya Nash Hussein

Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging and others. It has also been shortlisted for the KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. She has edited for Voiceworks, Liminal, The Lifted Brow, Australian Poetry and The Victorian Writer. She studied violin at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, played with the MSO as part of their 'Share the Chair' program, and featured on Anthony Callea's Christmas album.

Articles by Adalya Nash Hussein:

20 September 202420 September 2024 · Music

Silence in the concert hall

Adalya Nash Hussein

Jayson Gillham is the latest in a long line of artists punished for their solidarity with Palestinians amidst (and before) the current genocide. The repeated assertion that a “concert platform is not an appropriate stage for political comment” follows an ahistorical attitude common within institutions, audiences and the broader public that classical music is an artform without real meaning, politics and thus contemporary relevance.

Published in Overland Issue Poetry in Lockdown · Poetry

October monthly

Adalya Nash Hussein

my friend’s face is in a pile by the counter i compulsively reach out to touch it turn it over give her some privacy to observe that this is not what is usually meant by ‘covergirl’ is on the nose