Poetics of Resistance - Thursday 21 May, 5pm
For Goorie and Koori poet and Stella Prize winner Evelyn Araluen (The Rot), Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry winner Maxine Beneba Clarke (beautiful changelings) and poet and playwright Nikita Gill (Hekate: The Witch), poetry is a place for deep connection, profound reckoning and feminist resistance.
Rythym of Truth Poetry Gala - Thursday 21 May, 8pm
In this special evening event, Evelyn Araluen (The Rot), Maxine Beneba Clarke (beautiful changelings), Nikita Gill (Hekate), Omar Musa (Fierceland) with musical accompaniment from cellist Mariel Roberts Musa, Michael Pedersen (The Cat Prince: & Other Poems) and David Stavanger (The Drop Off) take to the stage to share words of truth and beauty.
What Makes a Writer - Saturday 23 May, 2pm
Featuring iconic Australian writer and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke (beautiful changelings), the outgoing Parramatta Laureate in Literature Yumna Kassab (Goodbye, My Love) and the new Laureate, award-winning essayist and fiction writer Eda Gunaydin (Root and Branch). This will be an illuminating and insightful conversation about the opportunities available and barriers facing writers throughout a lifelong career.