2025 PROGRAM
Australian Historical Fiction
DATE:
Saturday 29th March
LOCATION:
Darley Smith Building
COST:
$22
We discuss Australian historical stories from 18th century England to World War II with three authors.
Free by Meg Keneally blends storytelling with social critique in the story of Molly Thistle, who is
transported to the new penal colony after stealing a horse and defies convention to create a commercial empire.
All the Golden Light by Siobhan O’Brien sees the struggle that takes place at home after World War I, where everyone is affected: returned soldiers by post- traumatic stress and women wanting independence and purpose.
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon weaves together an Australian nurse and soldier in New Guinea, scientists in Los Alamos, and a mother in Japan, connected in a moment of history in a tale of friendship, love, and war.
Host: Victoria Haskins
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.