#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 120 minutes
Christine Jackman has spent her career as an investigative journalist observing, examining, and writing about our world at a frantic pace. We must, however, make time to pause... to breathe... to introspect. With an enquiring and analytical mind, Christine seeks these moments of quiet in our busy world to ask, where to from here?Following their First Word address, Ellen van Neerven delivers the Last Word of the Brisbane Writers Festival, looking ahead to our 60th anniversary in 2022. Ellen closes our program with a First Nations perspective on prominent themes and ideas from our Festival conversations.
Join us immediately following the presentations for a glass of wine and canapés, which are included in the ticket price.
#Artists
Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award. Throat, Ellen's highly anticipated second collection of poetry, was published in 2020. In 2021 they are the editor of the anthology Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now.
Christine Jackman
Christine Jackman began her career as a journalist with the Courier-Mail in Brisbane, Australia, in 1993. She has worked in New York as a foreign correspondent for NewsCorp, in the Canberra press gallery and as the Australian's social issues writer. After several years as a staff writer for the Weekend Australian Magazine, Christine embraced freelance journalism, with features published in Good Weekend, Vogue and the Australian Women's Weekly. She is also a communications consultant.
