#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Better Together
Allanah Hunt (Forever & Ever), Anna Whateley (Tearing Myself Together)
Chair: Rhianna Patrick
YA Program
6:30–7:30pm, Friday 9 October, Fairfax Studio
Buried secrets. Messy friendships. Unhappy families. The pain and promise of first love. The challenge of forgiveness. In these two candid and heart-wrenching novels, characters wrestle with emotional and physical adversity as they come to terms with their past and learn how to reimagine their future.
#Artists
Allanah Hunt
Dr Allanah Hunt is a queer Kurnu-Barkindji and Malyangapa woman. She is an academic at the University of Queensland, editor and writer. She has published many short stories and won several awards for her writing. Her first book, Forever & Ever, a YA novel, has been released by TEXT Publishing.
Anna Whateley
Anna lives in Meanjin on Turrbul and Yuggera land. She has always worked in literature and education and holds a PhD in young adult fiction. As an author, Anna writes young adult fiction and has contributed to multiple anthologies on disability, ADHD and autism.
Rhianna Patrick
Rhianna Patrick is a Torres Strait Islander journalist, broadcaster and writer.
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