TDTF Lead Artist-in-Residence:

Peter Polites is a writer of Greek descent from Western Sydney who has written and performed pieces all over Australia. In 2020 he won the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Fiction and in 2021 he was the ACT Writer in Residence at UNSW Canberra. His novels include Down the Hume (2017), The Pillars (2019), which won the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Multicultural Award, and God Forgets About the Poor (2023). Peter’s short stories and essays have been published in Overland, Seizure, and Sydney Review of Books. He was the co-writer of the award-winning web-series, ILUVUBUT, and of Urban Theatre Projects’ production, Home Country, which premiered in the 2017 Sydney Festival.