Maxine Beneba Clarke’s eloquent and brutally honest memoir The Hate Race chronicles growing up black in white middle class suburban Sydney. Join her for a fierce interrogation of racism in Australia – then and now.
An AUSLAN interpreter sponsored by Deaf Services Queensland will be present at this event.
Maxine Beneba Clarke is author of the poetry collection Carrying The World, the memoir The Hate Race and the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, which won major awards. Her children’s picture book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published late 2016.
Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Goorie novelist and essayist. Her work is about a better Australia for all.
