Creative Dialogues: From Blogs to Geo-Politics: The Non-Fiction of Place

Michelle Cahil and panelists Vanessa Berry, Rosie Scott and Tess Lea discuss what our fascination is with books that take us on a journey. The discussion moves from the personal inner space of blogs and adolescence with Vanessa Berry’s work, to books that engage with place in historical and political ways.

Vanessa Berry is a writer and artist who has worked on several memoirs, blogs and many zines. Berry is also known for her map-based works and creative cartography, and her work has been featured in literary journals, anthologies and many zines exhibitions.

Rosie Scott is an internationally published novelist and has also written widely on issues surrounding human rights and social justice. Scott co-edited the literary anthology, A Country Too Far, with Tom Keneally and has been a judge of many literary awards.

Tess Lea is an anthropologist in Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, and previously worked in the Northern Territory Departments of Health an Education. Lea’s research interests include human/other animal relations, development theory and the will to improve (across housing, education, health and other social policy fields) and she is currently pursuing ethnographic research on the question, can there be good social policy in regional and remote Australia.

Entry is $10, cash only. For more information, please check the Wollongong Writers Festival website.

Note: All proceeds from ticket sales go towards paying the writers at the festival.

Posted on October 28, 2015