Writing Women's Stories

Sun 14 May 2023

Lenora Thaker + Samantha Faulkner

kuril dhagun, slq

Free event / Main Festival

BWF100

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Torres Strait Islander women are deadly! Come and hear from these Deadly women and what they are working on. As Toni Morrison said, “If you cannot find the book you want to read, you must write it,” and that’s just what these ladies are doing. Curated by Samantha Faulkner.

#Artists

Lenora Thaker

Lenora Thaker is a proud Meriam and Wagedagam woman born and raised on Gimuy-Walubarra Yidinji country in Far North Queensland. She is a descendant of the Torres Strait Islanders of Cairns Malaytown (a swampland shantytown that existed from the late 1800s to the early 1950s), who are the inspiration for this story. Lenora Thaker received the Boundless Mentorship for The Pearl of Tagai Town.

Samantha Faulkner

Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman with family links to Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and Wuthathi and Yadhaigana peoples, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Sam is a writer, poet and editor whose publications include: Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, written with her grandfather; Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra; and Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, published by Black Inc, 2024. Her short stories and poetry have been published nationally and internationally and her poetry has been translated to French, Indian and South Korean. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.