Geraldine Star in conversation with Anita Heiss

Shee-Oak is a modern adventure novel. Two women looking for love forge a fraught intergenerational bond as they travel across the drought-stricken Hay Plain to Adelaide. Fireworks abound and they must overcome addictions as they take the rocky road to transformation and redemption.

Geraldine Star is a writer’s group enthusiast, and, as an educator, she continues to write, coach and mentor. She lives and works in seaside Sydney and draws on her experience of growing up on a farm between Griffith and Hay in Wiradyuri country.

Dr Anita Heiss is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. She is a regular guest at writers’ festivals and travels internationally performing her work and lecturing on aboriginal literature. She is a lifetime ambassador of the Aboriginal and Indigenous Literacy Foundation and a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation of Central NSW. She has recently won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers’ Prize and has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant services to tertiary Indigenous studies, and to the Arts.

This event will start at 6.30pm, light catering will be provided for guests to enjoy from 6.00pm.

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