Writer's Talkfest 2021
Save the date for 'Writing Resilience'
We are thrilled to announce that our annual Talkfest will take place on Thursday 12 August at 7:30pm at Northcote High School Hall. 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 anticipate this will be a sell-out event and encourage you to gather some friends and purchase tickets quickly. Tickets are $20 / $15 Concession
Where: Olver Hall, Northcote High School
When: Thursday 12 August
Price: $20/ $15 Concession
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.