Melissa Lucashenko at Mildura Writers Festival

Held annually in July, the Mildura Writers Festival presents four days of words, food, wine, and music, featuring a stellar line-up of Australian writers.

Throughout the weekend invited guests and audience members intermingle freely sharing an experience that provides thoughtful and challenging ideas about writing and literature in general. Providing much needed cultural enrichment for remote and regional audiences, it's little wonder this inspiring Festival attracts return visitors year after year.


Friday the 19th of July

10.00am – 11.15am

Powerhouse Precinct
Hugh King Dve, Irymple (Mildura)

Reading and Writing Place into Being

What does the practice of writing and reading about placemaking reveal and why is it a radical act? Moderated by Melinda Hinkson with Melissa Lucashenko, Lilian Pearce, Emily Potter, and Nikita Vanderbyl, our speakers explore the ways in which their work redefines the spirit of place

Saturday the 20th of July

2.45pm – 3.45pm

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY (LTU)
Benetook Avenue, Irymple (Mildura)

Melissa Lucashenko: Edenglassie

Winner of the Miles Franklin award for Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko talks withTerri-anne White about her novel, Edenglassie. Set in Brisbane, two extraordinary stories, five generations apart, debunk colonial myths and reimagine an Australian future.