#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
These writers illuminate the possibilities and limitations of empathy, how thought is transformed across boundaries of language, time and culture, and the indelible friction that’s essential to the act of reading.
#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.
Melanie Myers
Melanie Myers is an award-winning writer, editor and researcher. Her latest book is a guide to writing historical biofiction (TPB Routledge, 2026). Her first historical novel Meet Me at Lennon’s (2019) was published after she won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Writing. Her current WIP is an historical biofiction about the filmmaking McDonagh sisters. Her essays and other publications can be found at melaniemyers.com.






