Walking Sydney with Belinda Castles and Vanessa Berry

Walking Sydney invites you to walk with a city’s writers as they share their places of home and imagination. From the streets of the suburbs to the shores of the harbour, as we walk amid diasporas, countercultures, activists, artists, dreamers and thieves, the city comes alive with story. Written by Belinda Castles from walks taken with fifteen writers, Walking Sydney is an opportunity to see the city afresh.

Belinda Castles is the author of four novels: Bluebottle, Hannah and Emil, The River Baptists and Falling Woman, and winner of the Australian/Vogel’s and Asher literary awards. She teaches writing at the University of Sydney.

Vanessa Berry is a Sydney writer and artist who works with history, memory and archives. She is the author of the memoir Ninety9 (Giramondo 2013); Mirror Sydney (Giramondo 2017), and Gentle and Fierce (Giramondo 2021). Mirror Sydney, which grew out of a blog of the same name she began in 2012, was launched as a…