FNAWN: Online Winter Writers Poets Storyteller Series
11am to 12:30pm Saturday 14 Saturday
In conversation with Melissa Lucashenko
FNAWN are proud to announce their next guest speaker, the very oh so cool, calm, and collected Melissa Lucashenko is kicking off their August Online Winter Series “In Conversation” discussions ~ unrehearsed, unscripted with a glorious free fall into what ever topic matter our guest speaker wishes to discuss allowing time for questions from the online viewer.
Tips, tools of the trade, expectations, reflections ~ their guest speakers are in the driver’s seat. Are you game to come along for the FNAWN ride? Registration Essential Email your interest at firstnationswriters@gmail.com please note all times for the FNAWN Winter Series are set at AEST
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel, Steam Pigs, was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Too Much Lip is her sixth novel and won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.