Lucy Treloar reflects on Australia’s colonial history, research and her debut novel, Salt Creek.
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Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Presented by RSL Care and in partnership with Brisbane City Council
BWF in the ‘Burbs: Chermside Library
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in Melbourne, England and Sweden. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing program, Lucy is a writer and editor and has plied her trades both in Australia and in Cambodia, where she lived for a number of years. She teaches creative writing at RMIT. Her novel Salt Creek was published in 2015 and has won or been shortlisted for awards including the Miles Franklin, the Dobbie, the ABIA Matt Richell Award,and the Indie Book Award for Best New Fiction. In 2014 she won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region).