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From Text Publishing Website: “Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel.

Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in Sydney and are estranged. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents.

Little by little the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past”.

Further details, including reviews, here.

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It is a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks with contributions from Coetzee’s friends and contemporaries.

Post Image Credit: John Coetzee, Adam Chang, 2011. Oil on canvas, 240cm x 310cm. C Adam Chang. Photo AGNSW.

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The fifth China Australia Literary Forum (CALF 5), ‘Ideas of the Future/Building Relations’, brought writers, critics and publishers from Australia and China together in dialogue about literature and cultural translation. It was co-hosted by the Writing & Society Research Centre, the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, and the China Writers’ Association.

Over four sessions chaired by Isabelle Li, Nicholas Jose, Denise Varney and Jing Han, invited delegates were asked to speak for ten minutes on one of the program themes: i) Worlds of the Future, ii) Ecology and the Environment, iii) Economies and Networks, iv) Building Relationships.

Below are the speeches in each session, along with their accompanying translation.

PANEL ONE: WRITERS #1 (Chair – Isabelle Li)

• Lisa Gorton (novelist, poet) – ‘The Readers Digest Great World Atlas’
• Kate Fagan (poet) – ‘”Keep Every Story Live”: Natalie Harkin’s Archival Poetics’
• Mr Dong Xi (novelist) – ‘The Purpose of Writing is Communication’
• Ms Zheng Xiaoqiong (poet) – ‘The Way of Poetry’

PANEL TWO: WRITERS #2 (Chair – Nicholas Jose)

• David McCooey (poet) – ‘Future Worlds’
• Felicity Castagna (novelist) – ‘Past, Present and Future Worlds’
• Ms Xia Jia (novelist) – ‘Believe in the Future’
• Mr Long Yi (novelist) – ‘Enjoying the Internet’

PANEL THREE: CRITICS

• Justin Clemens (poet, critic) – ‘The Smallest and most Minimal of Beings’
• James Ley (critic) – ‘Untitled’
• Mr Yan Jingming (critic) – ‘The Future of Literature’
• Mr Li Guoping (critic) – ‘Untitled’

PANEL FOUR: PUBLISHERS

• Xiang Ren (scholar of publishing) – ‘Literary Publishing in a Connected Digital World’
• Mrs Ying Hong (editor and publisher) – ‘Belief in the Future’
• Sam Cooney (publisher) – ‘Building Relationships: Blak Brow: Stepping Back to Move Foreward’ (English Only)

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As part of the Writing and Society Research Centre’s Other Worlds project, the eminent Waanyi novelist Alexis Wright, along with Ben Denham, Ben Etherington, and Anthony Uhlmann, travelled to Doomadgee, a community on Gangalidda country in the Gulf of Carpentaria where they spent several days collaborating with activist and community elder, Clarence Walden. They recorded his gripping story of growing up in brutal conditions on the Doomadgee mission in the 1960s and his emergence as a staunch leader of his people through the 1980s and 90s. From this material, Etherington and Wright produced the feature radio documentary Nothing but the Truth for ABC Radio National’s AWAYE! program. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/nothing-but-the-truth/10945938

The radio documentary was launched by Michelle Trudgett, Western Sydney University’s new PVC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy and Consultation, and sections of the documentary were played, along with a slideshow of images from the mission archive and trip. This was followed by a conversation and questions with Walden, with a particular focus on his experiences growing up on a mission and his battles, both current and past, against mining companies operating in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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The film documentary was premiered at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Art and Social Science’s ‘World Literatures and the Global South Conference’ (23-25 August, 2019). The documentary premiere was preceded by a Keynote address by Alexis Wright, ‘A Self-Governing Literature: Who Owns the Map of the World?’, and followed by an Address and Q&A with Clarence.

For full details of the project see Telling the Story of the Gulf.

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