Nada Hassin Ali – photo credit: Faris Mindal

Nada Ali is 20 year old poet from northern Iraq. She writes about her experience as a young Yazidi women, and brings light to the injustice the Yazidi community continues to experience after the 2014 Genocide by ISIS. Nada Ali was a 2023 Australia Slam Poetry NSW finalist and the winner of the 2024 Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival poetry competition.

 

See the APS Victoria Finalists compete for the crown of APS ‘25 Victoria State Final Champion at the 2025 Victoria APS State Final on 11 October at State Library Victoria.