Sam van Zweden Sam van Zweden i(7784549 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Breaking Open Mental Illness Narratives Sam van Zweden , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2024;
'To examine one’s mental health in literature is to do the difficult work of overcoming shame and transforming the ineffable into words. Two new releases break form to share personal stories that hold room for ambiguities of the mind.' 

(Introduction)

1 Heat and Hope and Attention : Body Control in a Time of Chaos Sam van Zweden , 2022 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 78 2022; (p. 188-195)
1 Time Signatures Sam van Zweden , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2021;
'These interrupted years have made time stand still, extend, repeat. Through deliberate attention to music and the rhythms of nature, I’m learning to live within this suspended moment.' (Introduction)
1 4 y separately published work icon Eating with My Mouth Open Sam van Zweden , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2021 21226881 2021 single work autobiography essay

''To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.'

'Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, bold, and exceptionally tasty. Sam van Zweden's personal and cultural exploration of food, memory, and hunger revels in body positivity, dissects wellness culture and all its flaws, and shares the joys of being part of a family of chefs.

'Celebrating food and all the bodies it nurtures, Eating with My Mouth Open considers the true meaning of nourishment within the broken food system we live in. Not holding back from difficult conversations about mental illness, weight, and wellbeing, Sam van Zweden advocates for body politics that are empowering, productive, and meaningful.' (Publication summary)

1 Shelf Reflection : Sam Van Zweden Sam van Zweden , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2021;
1 More Than Opening the Door Sam van Zweden , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;

'In her 2015 Sydney Review of Books article ‘What the essayist spills’, Maria Tumarkin draws a clear distinction between ‘confessor’ and ‘essayist’. The first is a writer who spills everything for an audience primed to receive and ‘learn’ from it. The latter sees their material as an entry to wider discussions; ‘smashing the bottom from underneath the author’s experiences’ and steering them into a place where the experiences are simply given space to breathe in an approach driven by curiosity.'  (Introduction)

1 Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Chloe Cooper , Fernanda Dahlstrom , Sam van Zweden , Amy Walters , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , July 2020;

— Review of A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing Jessie Tu , 2020 single work novel ; Living on Stolen Land Ambelin Kwaymullina , 2020 selected work poetry prose ; Metal Fish, Falling Snow Cath Moore , 2020 single work novel ; After Australia 2020 anthology short story
1 1 Eating with My Mouth Open Sam van Zweden , 2019 extract essay (Eating with My Mouth Open)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2019;
1 Sam Van Zweden on Creativity and Rest Sam van Zweden , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2019;

'There’s an ache that comes from somewhere in my middle-lower back and which feels emotional at its root. Like whatever it is that keeps me standing and breathing and conscious is giving up. I live with depression, and I know the feeling of low mood descending, and this ache is not quite it. The ache isn’t only mine, either; it goes beyond my edges and is shared by people around me. It feels widespread, not just within my local community, but perhaps distributed generationally.'  (Introduction)

1 I’m Rethinking My Heroes : Australian Nonfiction and Reading Loudly Sam van Zweden , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Into the Green Sam van Zweden , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , June 2016;
Flash non-fiction.
1 Fountain i "The stranger things we wished with—", Sam van Zweden , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Spring no. 11 2015; (p. 30)
1 The Horror of the Body i "In jars, in boxes, in over-lit cabinets, on tables", Sam van Zweden , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Winter no. 6 2014; (p. 4)
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