Associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney Debra Adelaide will join the line up at the Orange Readers and Writers Festival on Saturday.
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The bestselling author and editor of 15 books will be first to speak at the Fireside Reads event upstairs at the Hotel Canobolas.
The creative writing teacher will talk about her experiences as an educator, researcher, book reviewer and literary award judge.
Ms Adelaide is also the founder and managing editor of the Empathy Poems, an online collection of poems for refugees and people seeking asylum around the world.
Her most recent book, Zebra, consists of 13 short stories and one singular novella.
The novella envisages a political landscape where the nation's leaders are neither power-hungry nor indifferent to those less fortunate.
Her imagined prime minister is apolitical and forgiving, a hands-on, indisputably human character who landscapes the lodge to include a maze.
Ms Adelaide will be joined by authors Tim Ayliffe, Summer Land, Felicity McLean and Meg Keneally during the day of author talks.
The 10am-3.30pm event will also include a talk from Kiara Harris on the Year of Indigenous Languages and the announcement of the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards.
An oral history workshop will take place as part of the festival on Thursday, a family history workshop will take place on Friday.
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Alex Crowe
Alex covers science and environment issues, with a focus on local Canberra stories. alex.crowe@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Alex covers science and environment issues, with a focus on local Canberra stories. alex.crowe@austcommunitymedia.com.au
