In conversation with Krissy Kneen
Flames
Heritage Collections Learning Room, State Library of Queensland
Contemporary Storytelling / Fantasy/Mythology
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Contemporary fiction and mythology. Flames opens with a moment of transformation: ‘Our mother returned to us two days after we spread her ashes over Notley Fern Gorge.’ Robbie Arnott’s beguiling debut explores the messy, overwhelming nature of grief with a magical twist.
#Artist
Robbie Arnott
Robbie Arnott was born in Launceston in 1989. His writing has been widely published, including in Island, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Going Down Swinging and Seizure. He won the 2015 Tasmanian Young Writers’ Fellowship and the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.
Robbie's debut novel, Flames, was released by Text Publishing in May.
#Moderator
Krissy Kneen
Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir—Affection—and fiction: Wintering, An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.
