Your Favourites, Melissa Lucashenko: Canberra Writers Festival (ACT)

Join Shannyn Palmer, author of Unmaking Angas Downs, at the Canberra Writers Festival panel 'Your Favourites, Melissa Lucashenko.'

Melissa Lucashenko has created some of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction. Her latest novel, Edenglassie, is a masterclass in people watching. How does she build such human - and humane - depth into her work? Come and find out. Melissa talks to award winning historian Shannyn Palmer.  

About the book:

Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction of what has happened there. Like all places it has accrued people and stories, in multiple layers, over time.

Listening to Tjuki Tjukanku Pumpjack and Sandra Armstrong, two Anangu with deep and abiding connections to Angas Downs, a very different kind of place emerges from that conjured in myths and histories of pioneers and pastoralists that have shaped understandings of the past in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory.

Unmaking Angas Downs traces a history of colonisation in Central Australia by tracking the rise and demise of a rural enterprise across half a century, as well as the complex and creative practices that transformed a cattle station into Country.

Bookings:

Bookings are required, with adult tickets set at $28 and concession $22. Please book here.