Tribute to Tirra Lirra

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Melissa Lucashenko + Ashley Hay + Ruth Blair

Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland

Panel

7130

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Jessica Anderson’s Miles Franklin winning novel Tirra Lirra by the River has had a profound impact on Australian literature. Join three writers as they tribute this incredible work of writing and celebrate the place of Queensland in Australia’s literary canon.

#Artists

Melissa Lucashenko

ML is a Walkley award winning writer. Her latest novel, Too Much Lip was shortlisted for the Stella and NSW Premier's Prizes, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.

Ashley Hay

Ashley Hay is a novelist and essayist whose awards include the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies’ Colin Roderick Award, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Peoples’ Choice, and the Bragg/UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. Her latest novel is A Hundred Small Lessons. She is the editor of Griffith Review.

Ruth Blair

Ruth Blair taught American and Environmental literature at the Universities of Tasmania and Queensland. She has had a long and passionate interest in Jessica Anderson’s fiction and first wrote about her in Island magazine in 1987. She is currently writing about the idea of the garden in Anderson’s novels.

#Moderator

Fiona Taylor

Fiona is the Chair of the Brisbane Writers Festival Board. With qualifications in Economics and the Humanities she has worked across both Government and private sector roles developing policy and implementing equitable program delivery strategies. She has had a long term voluntary commitment to the education arts and aid sectors.