On September 12 at Peppers Silo Hotel in Launceston, I will be joining Penguin Prize-winning author Annette Higgs for a conversation titled: Writing Family, History and the Tasmanian Landscape. Hosted by the Tamar Valley Writers Festival, this is a warm-up event to the flagship weekend in October.
Annette’s novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise is set in Tasmania and is inspired by extensive family research and the history of the Paradise area – particularly, the arrival of Christian Brethren evangelists.
And my novel, The Secrets of the Huon Wren is also set in Tasmania, inspired by more recent family observations as well as 1950s research of the Caveside area, a stone’s throw from the setting of Annette’s novel.
It follows that we’re both pretty chuffed to be able to come together and chew over the finer details of pulling a work of fiction together using truths from history, family and a very similar Tasmanian landscape for texture, authenticity and meaning.
I’d love for you to join us!
The details:
Thursday, September 12
6:30-8:30pm
Peppers Silo Hotel, Launceston
Ticket price includes a drink on arrival
Bring your book club, your family history research group, your historical society, your friend who needs encouragement to get going with writing that novel! And bring your questions too – there will be ample opportunity to voice them.
Petrarch’s Bookshop will be attending if you don’t yet have either of these titles.
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Claire van Ryn 