Sam van Zweden

Nonfiction and Reviews:

• ‘For plus-size people like me, dressing for joy is a radical act’, in The Guardian Australia, 31 December 2021.
• ‘Time Signatures‘ on Kill Your Darlings, September 2021.
• ‘The “angry chef” narrative: Aftertaste is a window into a once-toxic world‘, in Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, February 2021.
• ‘Curating your Instagram feed to support eating disorder recovery‘, on the Butterfly Foundation Blog, February 2021.
• ‘My resolution isn’t to “get a better body”‘, on ABC Everyday, January 2021.
• ‘More than opening the door’, in Meanjin, summer 2020.
• Review: Viva La Novella co-winners, on Kill Your Darlings, October 2020.
• ‘Bruce Bogtrotter is the enduring hero of Matilda‘, in Island Magazine, September 2020.
• ‘In isolation with Sam van Zweden‘, on Dining in Place, July 2020.
• ‘Pretending to be my dog on Instagram helped my mental health‘, on ABC Life, July 2020.
• Review: Metal Fish, Falling Snow, on Kill Your Darlings, July 2020.
• ‘Profile: Writer Lindy West‘ (published in print as ‘West Assured’), on/in the Saturday Paper, December 14 2019.
• ‘KYDUMA Shortlist: Eating with my Mouth Open‘, on Kill Your Darlings, September 2019.
• ‘Learning to Come Back: On Creativity and Rest‘, on Sydney Review of Books, August 2019.
• Review: The White Girl, on Kill Your Darlings, July 2019.
• ‘Fixing Food: Three moves in the right direction‘, on Sydney Opera House’s Backstage, July 2018.
• ‘After Reykjavik: A Chorus of Reports‘ – a collaborative essay on Essay Daily, June 2018.
• ‘Rethinking my heroes: Australian nonfiction and reading loudly‘, on Meanjin, April 2018.
• ‘Making waves in a man’s world: Jane Campion’s women in The Piano and Top of the Lake: China Girl‘, in Metro issue 196, 2018.
• ‘But still’, on The Lifted Brow Online, January 2018.
• ‘Forged by Fire: Food, family and culture in Matthew Salleh’s Barbecue‘, in Metro, Issue 194, October 2017.
• ‘What I’ve Been Reading: Samantha van Zweden’, on Meanjin, June 2017.
• ‘‘My depression says hi’: Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today‘, on Killings, July 2016.
• ‘Memory as Collage‘, in Antic, June 2016.
• ‘Into the Green‘, on Seizure, May 2016.
• ‘Sam van Zweden on “Small Acts of Disappearance”‘, on Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, April 2016.
• ‘Hating Your Guts: Why we struggle with offal‘, on The Wheeler Centre, April 2016.
• ‘Do less, but do it more consistently‘, on ArtsHub, February 2016.
• ‘Eating with my Mouth Open: On memories of food and family‘ (extract), on The Wheeler Centre, January 2016.
• ‘Scum interviews: Meghan Daum‘, on Scum Mag, December 2015.
• ‘Australia’s Literary Landscape’ in The Victorian Writer, September-October 2015
• ‘Books Will be Books’ in The Big Issue no 487, June 2015.
• ‘The Writer at the Centre of the Essay‘ on Killings, March 2015.
• ‘How Can I Help You?‘ on Feminartsy, December 2014.
• ‘Patatje Flip’ in Jumble (Vol 1: Taste), August 2014.
• ‘Welcome Strangers’ in The Big Issue no 458, May 2014
• ‘Zen and Kitchen Wisdom’ in The Big Issue no 443, October 2013
• Select Review: The Signature of All Things in The Big Issue no 443, October 2013
• Review: The Orchard of Lost Souls in The Big Issue no 441, September 2013
• Review: Just Between Us, in The Big Issue, No 435, July 2013.
• ‘The Turning of the Tide for Short Stories?’ at Killings, 17th June, 2013 (reproduced in Newswrite, NSW Writers Centre magazine, August-September 2013).
• ‘Review: And The Mountains Echoed’ in The Big Issue, No 433, May/June 2013.
• ‘Allowing the Possibility of Doing Things Differently’ on The Emerging Writer Online Journal, 27th November 2012.
• ‘Not incompatible, but mighty strange: The rise of the popular folk band‘ on Killings, 14th November 2012.
• ‘Review: The Missing Ink‘ on Readings (and in Readings Monthly), November 2012
• ‘Review: The Engagement’, in The Big Issue, No 417, October 2012.
• ‘Review: Mary Bennett’ in The Big Issue, No 407, May-June 2012.
• ‘Review: Running Dogs’ in The Big Issue, No 405, April 2012.
• ‘It Could, Happily, Swallow Me Whole‘ at Liticism, March 2012.
• ‘Happy at This Impasse‘ on the Verity La Forum, December 2011.
• ‘My Brother The Chef’ in The Big Issue, No 385, July-August 2011.
• ‘Review: Room’ in Catalyst, May 2011.
• ‘Review: 13, rue Therese‘ in Catalyst, April 2011.
• ‘Review: The Best Australian Stories 2010‘ in Catalyst, February 2011.

Poetry:

• ‘Lovers of Valdaro‘, in Cordite NO THEME V, May 2016.
• ‘Fountain‘, in Tincture, Issue 11, August 2015.
• ‘The Horror of the Body‘ in Tincture, Issue Six, June 2014.
• ‘Fold‘ in Tincture, Issue One, March 2013.
• ‘Sail’ at Verity La, March 2012.
• ‘Tiny Women’ in Undertow: An anthology of creative writing by students at RMIT university 2011, October 2011.
• ‘Enter Sol’ on Verity La, February 2011.
• ‘Dancing on Architecture’ in Voiceworks #82, ‘Hunger’. Spring 2010
• ‘Horse Factory’ and ‘I drank the ocean’ in Overload Electric Text, part of Overload Poetry Festival – at Federation Square ticker text. 10th – 19th September, 2010.
• ‘Sylvia Plath’ in Poetry 4 U, part of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival – at Federation Square ticker text. 27th August – 5th September, 2010
• ‘Tick-Tock Polka’ in Ricochet Magazine #01, Winter 2010.

Fiction:

• Contributed to Scum Mag‘s ‘Advent Calendar Experience‘, Christmas 2014.
• ‘After the End’ in Catalyst, February 2014.
• ‘Arachnophobia’ on Twelve Moments, November, 2010.
• ‘Hold On’ in Page Seventeen issue 8, 2010.

Appearances/podcasts

• ‘A New Body Politic‘, with Sarah Walker and Eloise Grills, on Melbourne Writers Festival podcast, January 2022.
• ‘The Memories We Inherit‘, with Krissy Kneen and Sarah L’Estrange, on Melbourne Writers Festival podcast.
• Let’s Talk podcast, ‘What is healthy eating?‘, October 2021.
• The Garrett, February 2021.
• Emerging Writers Festival 2021. Host, ‘A Meal at the Table’; workshop convenor, ‘A Body of Work’.
• Sydney Writers’ Festival 2021. Panellist: Food writing panel, Curiosity lecture, Stop Everything live.
• RMIT University, From and Towards NonfictioNOW: A Chorus of Reports. Panellist. September 2017.
• Melbourne Writers Festival, September 2017. In conversation: ‘Moleskine Coffee + Create’.
• NonfictioNOW (Reykjavik, Iceland), June 2017. Panellist: ‘Of Cannibals: Writers on Food as Literary Lens’
• Wheeler Centre, October 2016. Panellist, ‘Green Cleaver‘.
• Emerging Writers’ Festival, 2016. Criticism Masterclass speaker/panellist, ‘Anatomy of an Essay’.
• NonfictioNOW (Flagstaff, Arizona) October 2015. Panellist, ‘Unusual Foods and Edible Guests’.
• Emerging Writers’ Festival, 2015. National Writers Conference (Melbourne Town Hall) panellist and chair, ‘Blogging’.
• Noted Festival digital program, March 2015. Columnist, ‘Buzzwords‘.
• National Young Writers’ Festival, 2014: Chair – ‘Dear Diary’ and ‘Writers’ Other Jobs’. Panellist – ‘When It’s Time to Stop’ and ‘Whose Identity is it Anyway?’
• Digital Writers’ Festival, 2014. Panellist, ‘IRL: Literary Collectives and Place’.
• Digital Writers Festival, 2014. White Night: ‘Book of the Night’ writer, 5am slot.