Writing to Save the Planet
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
Alice Robinson
Alice Robinson grew up in Melbourne and regional Victoria. She earned a Bachelor of Creative Arts from The University of Melbourne and a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University, where she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research. Her fiction, essays and reviews have been published widely in literary journals, including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Overland, TEXT, Fireflies, Arena and Meanjin. Alice’s debut novel, Anchor Point (Affirm Press), was longlisted for The Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards (debut fiction) in 2016. Her second novel, The Glad Shout (Affirm Press) was published in early 2019.
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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