The Mill is thrilled to announce Aushaf Widisto as the recipient of the Citymag 2023 Writer in Residence July-December residency.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with Citymag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
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Aushaf Widisto is an emerging writer from Indonesia, currently based in Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide), Australia. His writing has been published in numerous publications across the web, both under his real name and pen name Adam Erland.
As Aushaf, he writes about arts, culture, creative industries and urbanism – which are subjects he is formally trained in. While as Adam, he writes more freely about his other passions – ranging from 'serious' stuff like philosophy to 'trivial' stuff like pop culture.
Aushaf writes in both English and Bahasa Indonesia, and has dabbled with many writing forms, including reviews, listicles and even academic papers. That said, he is most comfortable when writing memoirs and personal essays. He loves sharing lessons and experiences from his own life and finding the common humanity between his stories and other people’s.
In 2022, Aushaf launched the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)’s Emerging Writer Series as the inaugural emerging writer, where he wrote about SPECTRA, ANAT’s triennial festival of art, science and technology.
Learn more about Aushaf's work on his website.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
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