The inaugural Mountain Writers Festival will be hosted in the regional town of Macedon, Victoria (Wurundjeri Country). It will be the first Australian writers’ festival to focus exclusively on the environment – the most important topic of our times – with a forever theme of ‘Place Story Nature’.
Come along and catch Josh Kemp on the Trouble in the Outback panel with First Nation’s scholar Tyson Yunkaporta and author Kate Holden discussing how methods of land management have created a lingering darkness in the landscape and considering what remedies might let the light back in. This event is being held in Macedon on Sunday 6 November at 11.45am.
Check out the program for the Mountain Writers Festival.
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Josh is an author of Australian Gothic fiction. His debut novel, Banjawarn, was the co-winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award and won the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. He was also highly commended in the Viva La Novella Prize earlier this year.
He lives in the South West of WA but is drawn, over and over again, to the red dirt of the state's north.