In conversation with Ashley Hay
Finn's Feather
Heritage Collections Learning Room, State Library of Queensland
Home/Family/Childhood
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 45 minutes
A story about resilience and memory - about a child, his brother, and a friend who meets him where he is. The grief of losing a sibling, in a children's book. A session for all.
#Artist
Rachel Noble
Rachel Noble is the author of Finn's Feather, a picture book she was inspired to write after the loss of her son Hamish in 2012. After searching for picture books on grief for her children, Rachel realised there were gaps in this genre. She now focuses her time on writing picture books with emotional value.
Before she became an author, Rachel was an ABC/BBC Radio Producer, copywriter and voice-over artist.
She lives on the Sunshine Coast with her family.
#Moderator
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist, essayist, mentor and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK, the US and in translation, and has been recognised by awards including the Australian Society for Literature’s Colin Roderick Prize, the UNSW Press/Bragg Prize for Science Writing and Eucalypt Australia’s Dahl Medal. A former editor of Griffith Review, she lives and works in Brisbane.
