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Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based freelance writer. She has held a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship (2015) and been writer-in-residence at RMIT Urban Writing House (2016).

The online editor for Writers Bloc from 2013 to 2015, she has also worked as a book reviewer for The Big Issue, and served in various roles with Kill Your Darlings, Melbourne Writers' Festival, and Overload Poetry Festival.

In 2019, she won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award for her creative non-fiction manuscript Eating with My Mouth Open.

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y separately published work icon Eating with My Mouth Open 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)

2019 winner Kill Your Darlings Awards The KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award
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