First Nations: Voices of the Matriarchy

Four First Nations writers are taking to the Club Stage at Sydney Writers’ Festival to talk about community and courage, including a ‘live lit response’ honouring the matriarchal writers who have shaped their journeys. Yugambeh woman Ellen van Neervan (author of Comfort Food and Heat and Light) curated the line-up featuring poet and activist Evelyn Araluen; Hannah Donnelly, the writer and the creator of Sovereign Trax; writer and activist Nayuka Gorrie; and Lemons in the Chicken Wire poet Alison Whittaker. There are part of the next wave of First Nations women writers.