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The Darkside
Melanie Saward + Jasmin McGaughey + Evelyn Araluen + Loki Liddle
kuril dhagun, level 1, State Library
Free event
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Love a good ghost story? Well Indigenous people can tell some of the scariest. Join these storytellers fireside at kuril dhagun for yarns that are sure to raise the hairs on the back of your neck!
Panel: Loki Liddle, Evelyn Araluen, Jasmin McGaughey
Host: Melanie Saward
#Artists
Melanie Saward
Melanie Saward is a proud descendant of the Bigambul and Wakka Wakka peoples. She is a writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich). Her writing has been published in Flock, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, and New Australian Fiction 2019 and she is the managing editor of Djed Press.
Jasmin McGaughey
Jasmin is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer and editor. In 2019 she was lucky enough to be a black&write! editor intern and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter recipient. She has been able to write for Overland, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices, & Griffith Review.
Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie/Koorie poet, researcher and the co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her work has been awarded the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Her debut poetry collection DROPBEAR is forthcoming with the University of Queensland Press. Born and raised in Dharug country she is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation.
Loki Liddle
Loki Liddle is a proud Jabirr Jabirr man and a passionate poet, musician and Creative Producer for Digi Youth Arts. Perhaps more accurately referred to as a playful storyteller and a bit of a strange child with a will to be weird and a way to be made.
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