With vast wisdom and precise wit, two legends of First Nations storytelling meet in conversation, discussing the breadth of their craft, the fierceness of their politics and the depth of their understanding.
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet, writer and memoirist, and one of Australia’s most celebrated literary voices. Her works include little bit long time, Ruby Moonlight—winner of the NSW and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards—and the memoir Too Afraid to Cry. In 2017 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry from Yale University, and in 2014 became the first Aboriginal Australian writer invited to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She was also the inaugural recipient of the Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship at Adelaide Writers Week.
Recently leaving the ABC after 30 years at the microphone, not to mention behind the scenes, Bundjalung writer and journalist Daniel Browning’s debut Close to the Subject: Selected Works collected interviews, essays, poetry, memoir, art writing and play script from across his career, and went on to win the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non Fiction and the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing.
Ali Cobby Eckermann is appearing at the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival as part of the Maitri Fellowship program, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Ali Cobby Eckermann is an award-winning Yankunytjatjara poet. In 2013, she won the Kenneth Slessor Prize and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight. Her verse novel She is the Earth won the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Book of the Year and Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Stella Prize.
Daniel Browning is a Bundjalung and Kullilli journalist, radio broadcaster, documentary maker, sound artist and writer who worked for the ABC for 30 years. His first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works, won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and was shortlisted for the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers’ Prize.
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This event is part of the Main Program and included as part of Platinum, Gold, Silver and Saturday Bronze Passes.
Subject to availability, a limited number of single tickets may become available 9 September.
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This venue is wheelchair accessible. Please visit our Accessibility page or email hello@bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au if you have any other accessibility requirements.