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Chance encounter leads to debut novel on growing up Arab in Australia
Sara El Sayed was all set to study journalism when she attended a QUT open day just before finishing high school. There she met internationally acclaimed poet and QUT Professor Sarah Holland Batt and a new destiny was forged.
“Sarah spoke to me about the creative writing degree, and I was immediately drawn to it. She later became one of my lecturers and I cannot recommend the course highly enough,” said Sara who this week published her debut novel, Muddy People: A Memoir (Black Inc Books), completed during her Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing).