#About the event
All videos in this series will be available to watch until December 31, 2021.
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years. Song of the Crocodile was a 2018 winner of a black&write! writing fellowship.
Grace Lucas-Pennington is an Aboriginal (Bundjalung) editor specialising in fiction and poetry. Grace is the Senior Editor at State Library of Queensland’s black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project.
Nardi and Grace will discuss their collaboration on Nardi's debut novel, issues of representing Indigenous experience, cultural considerations when working with Indigenous writers and stories.
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#Artists
Nardi Simpson
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years. Her debut novel, Song of the Crocodile, was a 2018 winner of a black&write! writing fellowship.
Grace Lucas-Pennington
Grace Lucas-Pennington is a Bundjalung/European person living on Yuggera land. She grew up mostly between Bundjalung country on the NSW north coast and the greater Logan/Brisbane area. Grace is currently the Senior Editor for State Library of Queensland’s black&write! Indigenous Writing and Project. She was awarded the 2020 Nakata Brophy prize for poetry.
