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Digging into the Lore

Sat 1 Jun 2024

sydney khoo + Vanessa Len + Rhianna Patrick

Brisbane Square Library

Love YA / Free Event

1030

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

These writers may make fantasy look effortless, but building a whole new world is anything but easy. Bringing their very different perspectives to research and worldbuilding, these authors talk about their mythic inspirations, and the invisible work that goes into writing that leaps off the page.

Supported by Griffith University

Event update: unfortunately C.S. Pacat and Amie Kaufman are no longer able to attend the festival. Instead, Vanessa Len will be appearing as a panellist.

#Artists

sydney khoo

sydney khoo (they/them) is a nonbinary and aromantic asexual writer, born on Dharawal Country (South Western Sydney), to Malaysian Chinese parents.

Though typically drinking bubble tea in Cabramatta, or reading fanfiction in a McDonald's carpark, they can occasionally be found writing poetry and stories at cafés with their dog Gizmo.

Follow them @sydneykhoo or visit sydneykhoo.com.

Vanessa Len

Vanessa Len is an internationally bestselling Australian author and educational editor. Her first novel, Only a Monster, won the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel and has been translated into nine languages. The sequel, Never a Hero, is out now.

Rhianna Patrick

Rhianna Patrick is a freelance Torres Strait Islander journalist, broadcaster and audio content creator with 25 years' media experience. She's worked across news, tv documentaries, national radio programming and podcasts. She's written for Kill Your Darlings, NME Australia, The Australian Music Vault, Rotten Tomatoes and IndigenousX. Rhianna also curates one of Spotify Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander playlists, 'Original Storytellers'.