About Bilal Hafda

Bilal Hafda is the director of Guest House Publishing, and the artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam. He’s a spoken-word artist who has featured at the Sydney Writers Festival, TEDxSydney, and most of the poetry slams in NSW. He has published work in a number of literary journals, and An Army of Light is his debut poetry collection. Bilal trained as a high school English teacher, and currently runs creative writing workshops in-person and online all across Australia. He also hosts the Bankstown Poetry Slam (which recently received a Premier’s Literary Award – 2023), and is passionate about facilitating and nurturing the voices of the artists who participate in the slams, and the community that attends them.