Literary Allsorts Festival (Kyogle)

Performance Poetry

Where: The Roxy Gallery, 131 Summerland Way, Kyogle NSW 2474

When: Friday, May 15 5:30pm – 6pm

Kyogle’s own Carley Daley, Murwillumbah resident Damien Becker, and Mununjali poet Maria Van Neerven, read poetry from their latest poetry collections. Hosted by prize-winning poet, educator and producer, Sarah Temporal

Free entry

KRAW Presents Melissa Lucashenko

Where: KMI Hall

When: Saturday May 16, 12pm – 1pm

Melissa Lucashenko, a Bundjalung woman, is a leading Australian novelist. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner and a founding member of prisoner human rights organisation Sisters Inside. In 2019 Too Much Lip won Australia’s most prestigious writing prize, the Miles Franklin. Edenglassie, a novel of colonial Brisbane, won eight major literary awards and in 2026 is longlisted for the international Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize.

One of Australia’s most powerful voices will reflect on writing, identity, politics and belonging for her latest workNot Quite White in the Head.

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Belonging, Truth & Story: Identity in a Changing Country.

Where: KMI Hall, Stratheden Street, Kyogle, NSW 2474

When: Saturday May 16, 3pm – 4pm

Chaired by Melissa Lucashenko, in conversation with Tyree Barnette – Stolen Man on Stolen Land, Maria van Neerven – Two Tongues and Mirandi Riwoe – Stone Cold Sky Mountain and Sunbirds.

Together they will explore what it means to belong — to land, culture, community and history — in an Australia shaped by migration, colonisation and cultural renewal and how writers navigate truth-telling, language and responsibility when crafting stories about identity.

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