Thursday 11 – Thursday 18 September
Ethers / Digital & Partnered Event
Edits & Annotations: EWF Edition
In these three special episodes of the Edits & Annotations podcast, hosts Tenille McDermott, Mia-Francesca Jones and Bethany Keats interview emerging writers from regional Queensland. From NQ to your ears, these episodes explore trauma, place, writing as recovery, and each writers’ unique creative process.
Click below to hear these special EWF episodes!
Episode 1: Jade Reilly
Episode 2: Chelsea Roles
Episode 3: Sarah Burke
This project is presented by Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.
presented in partnership with
Featuring...
Jade Reilly
Jade Reilly is a writer and criminologist who lives in Australia with her English husband and two children. Legitimising a fascination with crime from an inappropriately young age, she spent much of her career as a criminologist advocating for social justice reform. For most of the last decade, she undertook specialist reviews of homicides, filicides […]
Sarah Burke
Sarah Burke is a descendant of Antekerrepenh and Alyawarre women. They are currently a Phd candidate with the Indigenous Education Research Centre at JCU. Sarah’s writing focuses on bringing to life stories influenced by the bush. Such as gothic landscapes, tall tales,ghost stories and yarns about moral ambiguity. She writes short stories, poetry and is currently working on a screenplay.
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