Writing to Save the Planet
Lucy Treloar + Alice Robinson + Rohan Wilson
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
Panel
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
When scientists raised the alarm about the future of our warming planet, writers were able to imagine and describe scary, alternative worlds. What role can writers play in helping us to understand the potential impacts of climate change?
#Artists
Lucy Treloar
ucy Treloar is a writer, occasional creative writing teacher, and artist in residence at Melbourne’s Meat Market. Her award-winning debut novel, Salt Creek, was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK’s Walter Scott Prize, and was published internationally in 2017. Her short fiction has been published in Sleepers, Overland, Seizure and Best Australian Stories, and her non-fiction in Meanjin and The Age among others. Wolfe Island is Lucy's second novel. Lucy lives in Melbourne with her family, and is working on her next novel and a PhD.
Alice Robinson
Rohan Wilson
Rohan Wilson is an award-winning writer and critic. He is a bestselling author of three novels, The Roving Party (2011) To Name Those Lost (2014), and Daughter of Bad Times (2019). Rohan lives in Brisbane where he lectures in creative writing.
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