Canberra Writers Festival 2024: 5, Your favourites: Anita Heiss

In conversation with Astrid Edwards Astrid Edwards is a podcaster who conducted a "conversation" I attended at last year's Festival (my post), while Wiradyuri writer Anita Heiss (my posts) has made frequent appearances on my blog. This was my second (and final) "Your favourites" session at the Festival, though there were more in the program. … Continue reading Canberra Writers Festival 2024: 5, Your favourites: Anita Heiss

Canberra Writers Festival 2023: 4, Into the Wild

How good was it that my two sessions today involved books my reading group has done this year, Debra Dank's We come with this place, and, in this session, Robbie Arnott's Limberlost. The session, subtitled "Robbie Arnott in conversation with Astrid Edwards", sounded broader in ambit: Robbie Arnott’s fiction is steeped in the wild: women … Continue reading Canberra Writers Festival 2023: 4, Into the Wild