How do you write narratives that aren’t centred around the powerful, but instead explore the lives of those who have been marginalised and forgotten? Join historian Deirdre O’Connell and poet/author Michelle Cahill as they discuss the art of drawing upon scant and fragmented records to create stories that place the experience of erasure at their narrative core.

Deirdre O’Connell is a historian of Australia and the United States and the author of The Ballad of Blind Tom: Slave Pianist and Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age.

Michelle Cahill is a novelist and poet whose debut novel Daisy and Woolf, released in June 2022, is published by Hachette and will be released in the UK later this year.

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This event is a free event, and registration is not required.