Writer's Talkfest
Talkfest moving online
We are thrilled to announce that our annual Talkfest will take place on Thursday 12 August at 7:30pm. Due to our current Covid restrictions, this will now be an online event. We were really looking forward to hosting the event on site and are saddened that we are unable to do that this year.
This year’s theme is Writing Resilience, join Ruth Clare author of Enemy and NHS parent, who will speak with an exceptional panel of authors; Alice Pung, Evelyn Araluen and Sarah Krasnostein.
We have had to cancel or transition many of our fundraising events over the past twelve months due to changes in restriction levels, so we encourage you to share this event amongst your broader community and help us fundraise for the school. We have opened more tickets for availability.
Tickets are $20 / $15 Concession per household (includes automatic entry into our door prizes for the Stella longlist, Stella shortlist and Neighbourhood Books voucher). Thank you so much to Stella and Neighbourhood Books for their support.
Where: Webex Events
When: Thursday 12 August at 7:30pm
Price: $20/ $15 Concession
We encourage you to pre-order novels from our authors through Neighbourhood Books in preparation for the event!
Alice Pung is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. One Hundred Days is her most recent novel.
Evelyn Araluen is the author of the poetry collection, Dropbear. She is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship, and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation.
Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of two books: The Believer and The Trauma Cleaner, which won the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non- Fiction, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction, the Dobbie Literary Award, and jointly won the Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications and academic journals in Australia, the UK and America.