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Join contributing authors and editors, Kirsten Krauth, Angela Savage, Jock Serong and Claire Coleman for a vibrant discussion on the art of responding to music through story.Across four anthologies - Minds Went Walking, Into Your Arms, Spinning Around, and the forthcoming Rivers Flow – Australian writers have reimagined iconic songs by beloved Australian artists, Paul Kelly, Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter as short fiction and creative non-fiction, creating a rich tapestry of narrative and melody.
Presented as part of AusMusic Month 2025, this panel celebrates the creative dialogue between Australia’s literary and musical voices.
About the panel:
Kirsten Krauth
Kirsten Krauth is an author, arts journalist and editor living in Castlemaine in regional Victoria. Her novel Almost a Mirror was published in 2020 by Transit Lounge. It was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and The Guardian named it as one of the ’20 Best Australian Books of 2020′. Her PhD in creative writing at the University of Canberra received the Parker Medal for Most Outstanding Phd.
Angela Savage
Angela Savage is an award winning Melbourne writer, who has lived and travelled extensively in Asia. Her debut novel,Behind the Night Bazaar, won the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. All three of her Jayne Keeney PI novels were shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards.The Dying Beachwas also shortlisted for the 2014 Davitt Award. She has taught writing throughout Australia and overseas. Angela holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Monash University, and is currently Director of Writers Victoria. Her novel,Mother of Pearl, is published by Transit Lounge.
Jock Serong
Jock Serong grew up in the suburbs of Melbourne. As a student and young lawyer he volunteered with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service on the Bringing Them Home inquiry, and did a stint in the Western Desert building a native title claim with the Martu people. While writing for Surfing World and other publications, he began trying to tell stories that weren’t sports-writing so much as people and place-writing. Environments, First Australians, mental health, forgotten histories, the tiny miracles of life on a reef. Alongside Mick Sowry and Mark Willett, Jock edited and published Great Ocean Quarterly for two fraught and wonderful years, and has produced five novels: Quota (2014), The Rules of Backyard Cricket (2016), On the Java Ridge (2017) and the Bass Strait historical novels Preservation (2018), The Burning Island (2020), The Settlement (2023), and Cherrywood (2024).
Claire Coleman
Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar woman whose family have belonged to the south coast of Western Australia since long before history started being recorded. She writes fiction, essays, poetry and art criticism while either living in Naarm (Melbourne) or on the road. Born in Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth), away from her ancestral country she has lived most of her life in Victoria and most of that in and around Naarm (Melbourne). During an extended circuit of the continent she wrote a novel, influenced by certain experiences gained on the road. She has since won a Black&Write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship for that novel ,"Terra Nullius". Terra Nullius was published in Australia by Hachette Australia and in North America by Small Beer Press.
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