#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Our online events can be watched through your BWF ticketing account, and will be available for viewing from 5pm, Friday May 7 to 5pm, Friday June 4.
Join three distinguished writers as they discuss the clash between human artifice and the natural world. Connection, loss, love, and integrity are all themes explored in their most recent books. How will we face the end of times?
#Artists
Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country - winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Her latest collection is Gunflower. She was the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow and teaches Creative Writing at Massey University.
James Bradley
James Bradley is an author and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean. His books have won or been shortlisted for a number of major Australian and international literary awards, and in 2012 he won the Pascall Prize for Australia's Critic of the Year. His new novel, Ghost Species, is published by Hamish Hamilton.
