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We are excited and proud to invite you to #TheThreadStory book launch event, with details as follows: 📅 Friday, 29th October 2021. 📍Indus Restaurant, Ubud, Bali. 🕔 15.00-19.00 WIB 📱LIVE on @ubudwritersfest Instagram

"Using the local building technology can reduce the cost of construction." - Popo Danes at #UWRF21 (Main Program | Sustainable Design)

"So much of my identity is wrapped up in this refugee history. I wouldn’t be where today as an American & as a writer, if it wasn’t for the war in Vietnam & then for the circumstances that forced my family to flee as refugees, becoming a refugee." - Viet Thanh Nguyen at #UWRF21

"I think that for writers, you know, we are people who have the capacity to shape our own narratives & it’s up to each of us to make a decision." - Viet Thanh Nguyen at #UWRF21

"We can’t have peace without justice." - Viet Thanh Nguyen at #UWRF21

"My hope is, we become more able to recognize colonialism and slavery are still going on. There is still strong colonialism by the very powerful economic lobbies." - Vanni Puccioni at #UWRF21 (Main Program | Bringing History to Today)

“It is more complicated than just saying that there’s bad guys and good guys, and bad guys are blocking progress. It is all of us who block progress because we don’t want to change our lifestyle and do anything that will sacrifice our material comfort.” - Mark Lynas at #UWRF21

"But at the time, we came out with a very simple dream: Niluh is a handmade creation that is created in Indonesia, Bali, with love.." - Niluh Djelantik at #UWRF21 (Main Program | Ethical Tourism Post Pandemic)

“How many of us really know ourselves? Just like how our eyes and mouth are located on the same face, but our eyes cannot see our own mouth. We need reflection to see our own self and reflect." - Agustinus Wibowo at #UWRF21

“Poetry is so often a moment of self reflection. For me, it’s a moment to pause, to come back to what is true. What is old, and what is known, and the places where we’re remembered.” - Kirli Saunders at #UWRF21

“The way we talk to children about these issues is so disempowering & so demoralising. Kids are always told that if you are not old enough to vote, then your opinion doesn’t really matter.” - Mya-Rose “Birdgirl” Craig at #UWRF21

“Fury is about what happen when there is no where left to fall, putting life together. It is about trauma, joy, and recovering. It is about the consolation of work and reading and how those things saved me.” - Kathryn Heyman at #UWRF21

“A lot of my interest in these places is that they’re always need to be linked with the end of story & they’re also mean something to me personally. So the selection of each place was very deliberate in how it comes to the mystery at the end.” - Rebecca Higge AT #UWRF21

Raise your hand if you are one of those passionate storytellers that keep fueling the word-chain phenomenon in social media ✋ Join #TheThreadStory alongside world-renowned authors to support our cause in democratizing literature through the simple act of tweeting! #UWRF21