North & South

THE D’ARCY ESSAY

Renee Liang’s essay A Kete Half Empty is the sixth and final work funded by the D’Arcy Writers Grants to be published in North & South.

The grants, sponsored by Mark and Deborah D’Arcy,). Our thanks to the D’Arcys for investing in such a legacy project, which not only celebrates excellence in longform essay writing but is an invaluable record of the disparate life and times of this country.

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