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Atoc Malou

Atoc Malou has been stepping onto poetry stages across Sydney and bringing innovative ideas to showcase her poetry. Through lighting, stage design, painting and even puppetry, Atoc is always experimenting with her creative expression. Atoc’s poetry journey has included features at the amazing Bankstown Poetry slam, Harmonity, RIFF RAFF, and Poetiq Honesty. Atoc has also curated the poetry and music showcase EyeWonder with Hip Hop Artist and partner Gian Santoro. She has participated in Culdesac, Culdesac, Culdesac 2025 and curated poetry workshops for South Sudanese youth and Afro-Caribbean writers festival Australia. As a member of Ourverse, an artist collective, she has helped facilitate artist lead events across western Sydney.

Parramatta’s new wave of storytellers: Fale Tumanu in conversation with Helen Latukefu and Atoc and Amuor Malou

Among them are Helen Latukefu, a Tongan-Australian scientist, beauty pageant winner and actress, and South Sudanese sisters Atoc and Amuor Malou, who work across social work, publishing, modelling and performance. Their professional lives may take them in very different directions, but poetry gives them a shared language: one they use to experiment, perform, tell stories, and carve out space for themselves in Western Sydney’s creative landscape.

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