Sarah Kanake and Emma Viskic have both written powerful, curious and complicated protagonists who are set apart by living with a disability. Join them as they explore identity in literature.
An AUSLAN interpreter sponsored by Deaf Services Queensland will be present at this event.
Sarah Kanake is a doctor of Creative Writing and lecturer at USC. Her short fiction has been published in The Southerly, Kill Your Darlings, Award Winning Australian Writing, and The Lifted Brow. She has been short-listed for the Overland Short Story Prize and won the QUT Postgraduate Writing Award. Sarah lives on the Sunshine Coast with her partner, daughter and two dogs. She is one half of the country music duo The Shiralee. Sing Fox to Me is her first novel.
Emma Viskic is a professional musician and author of the critically acclaimed 2015 crime novel, Resurrection Bay. She has won two of Australia’s premier crime fiction short story awards: the Ned Kelly S. D Harvey Award, and the New England Thunderbolt Prize. Her short-form fiction has appeared in Review of Australian Fiction and Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 and 2015. She lives in Melbourne and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching.
