Books
Hasbun, H (forthcoming - spring 2025) Wait for her, Footnote Press.
- Winner of the Footnote X Counterpoint writing prize
Book chapters or sections
- Hasbun, S (2017). 'Back and Forth, or Home', in A Place in Words: 25 Years of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, Bath, Bath Spa University Press, pp. 193-197.
- 3TCreatives – St Clair, E, Fuentes Diaz, C and Hasbun, S (2017). 'The We in I', in Barrett, A, ed. Here and There: The Life of a Global Citizen, Book Kernel, pp. 89-91.
Journals and Essays
Academic articles
Hasbun, S et al. (2022), 'The Application of Creative Practice as a Means of Disrupting or Re-defining the Dynamics of Power in, with or for Different Communities', in JAR - Journal of Artistic Research, Issue 27. Link: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1264307/1748107
Hasbun, S (2019). 'Card Sharp in Question', Essays and Art from the Humanities, Vol. 3, 2019, pp. 68-74. Link: https://www.questionjournal.com/issue-3
Essays and articles
Hasbun, S (2024). 'Palestine is Poetry' in This Week in Palestine, Issue 312 (April), pp. 40-46. Link: https://thisweekinpalestine.com/palestine-is-poetry/
Hasbun, S (2022). 'Back and Forth', in The Tickle, issue 36 (March 2022), pp. 11-14. Link: https://teia.art/objkt/694687
Hasbun, S (2019). 'What Do We Remember When We Remember?' in This Week in Palestine, Issue 258 (October), pp. 18-22.
Hasbun, S (2018). 'The Perfect Cut', in This Week in Palestine, Issue 240 (April), pp. 52-54.
Hasbun, S (2016). 'Pasta in Palestine' in Wales Arts Review ( July). Link https://www.walesartsreview.org/transnational-series-pasta-in-palestine/
Hasbun, S (2016). 'Brownie with the Enemy', in This Week in Palestine, Issue 218 (June), pp. 16-18.
For my articles for Tuscany Now and More please visit: https://www.tuscanynowandmore.com/discover-italy
See for example: https://www.tuscanynowandmore.com/discover-italy/museums-unmissable-sights/walking-tour-florence
Awards and Shortlists
Writing Practice
I am currently working through the final editing for my first book that will be published in 2025. Wait for Her is a memoir-family saga which retraces the love story between my Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of my half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. This is a story about grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.
I am also working on my second book-length work expanding on my interest on hybrid forms between fiction and non-fiction. The narrative moves between the fictional character Ayda and the non-fiction story of my grandmother. Both parts look at the power dynamics that affect women's lives in small communities and how indigenous practices of picking and gathering offer a safe space of agency.
Academic Articles
I am also completing a series of academic articles which stem from my PhD research and interests.
Collective writing for decolonisation- an initial framework
This article uses material from my PhD thesis and fieldwork and subsequential workshops delivered in various institutions and communities to explore the importance of creative writing to express marginalised histories and reclaim narratives, and the power of collective creation as a way to decolonise knowledge production and dissemination.
Biomythography: Writing as Agency for Marginalised People (Collaborative article)
This article is written in collaboration with Dr Zosia Crosse and is presented as an autoethnographic study of the literary genres that play between fiction and non-fiction. Under the label of biomythography (a term proposed by Audre Lorde), we look at and analyse works of literature by marginalised groups that exploit the blurred lines between fiction and non-fiction as a way to tell, protect, and reclaim their histories of discrimination and dispossession.
Longer Projects
Women writing for decolonisation and decarbonisation: creative strategies towards alternative futures
My next long-term project aims at creating an international collaboration to devise new strategies of ethnographic and decolonial research based on creative writing methodologies. The final output is a creative-practice anthology and the establishment of an international yearly festival looking at strategies of resistance to colonisation, capitalism, patriarchy, and climate crisis with the aim of giving prominence to alternative knowledge production and dissemination and establishing an emergent strategy transnational leadership to tackle global future challenges.
I am a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. I have always had to mediate between two cultures and every day for me is a journey across borders.
I studied Literature at the University of Pisa, the Sorbonne University and Bath Spa University where I also obtained my PhD in Creative Writing and History in collaboration with Exeter University. Since then, I have held teaching positions at Bath Spa University and Falmouth University.
I now teach across the undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing programmes as well as supervising PhD students here at Cardiff Met.
Through my practice and career, I have worked with diverse groups around the world, across cultures, languages and generations. I have created, organised, and facilitated events, workshops, and working groups to highlight and disseminate the importance of art and writing to negotiate complex identities.
I believe in the extremely generative power of collective creation and action and my research focuses on collaborative practices to explore histories of marginalised groups and decolonisation strategies.
My first book, the family memoir Wait for Her, won the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize and will be published in 2025.
You can find out more about my writing, research and initiatives at www.sabrinhasbun.com
