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A young man fresh out of prison, ready for payback, returns to his grandmother’s country; a community devastated by fire tries to grapple with profound loss. These writers reflect on regrowth, renewal and carrying on, in response to the festival theme – lyapirtneme | returning. In the face of destruction, loss and despair, what sustains us?

Alice Bishop, Paul Collis

Facilitator: Rachel Neary

This panel took place as part of the 2019 NT Writers' Festival--Alice Springs, Lyapirtneme | Return, brought to you by the NT
Writers' Centre.

Charles Massy in conversation with Kelly Lee Hickey

Radical farmer, scientist and author Charles Massy explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. Massy always uses personal experience as a touchstone – from an unknowing, chemical-using farmer with dead soils to a radical ecologist farmer carefully regenerating a 2000-hectare property to a state of natural health. Into evocative stories of innovative farmers, he interweaves his own local landscape, its seasons and biological richness, to create a moving and often lyrical story, a powerful and moving paean of hope.

This writers' talk took place as part of the 2019 NT Writers' Festival--Alice Springs, Lyapirtneme | Return, brought to you by the
NT Writers' Centre.

Three amazing authors discuss the books that changed their lives and much more in this panel sponsored by the Copyright Agency. The agency’s ‘This Book/Song Changed My Life’ campaign aims to remind people of the powerful effects that creative works have on our lives and the need to respect creators by paying for the works that we love, asking before we use other people’s creative work, crediting creators for their work and letting others know that it matters. Writers: Morris Gleitzman, Roanna Gonsalves, Declan Furber-Gillick

Facilitator: Emma Sleath

Thank you to the Copyright Agency for sponsoring This Book Changed My Life.