MOHAMMAD AWAD
Mohammad Awad is a Queer/Arab/Muslim and Writer/Director/Poet/Playwright who’s running out of ways to express himself. While he spends most of his time as a spoken word artist, he also writes and directs short films and visual poems such as The Flower, The Messenger and Beauty Marks.
He has featured in the Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney Mardi Gras, Sydney Living Museums - After Dark, The ICC, Sydney Festival, The West Ball 2020/2021, Word in Hand, Red Room Poetry, Giant Dwarf Theatre, Westside Slam, Enough Said Slam, Weave Youths’ Mad Pride Concert, White Ribbon events and Project Opinion. In addition to being featured on ABC and SBS television, ABC Radio, SBS Radio, Eastside Radio, 2SER and FBI Radio.
Published in an anthology series ‘Arab, Australian, Other’ among writers such as Sara Saleh and Randa Abdel-Fattah as well as The University of Sydney Student Anthology 'Diversity’. He has been featured in the Daily Telegraph, 614 Magazine, Honi-Soit magazine, and is a Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam finalist for three consecutive years. Mohammad is a NSW State finalist in 2019s Australian Poetry Slam, taking first place in Western Sydney finals.