Touring
Andrew McMillan’s schedule 2009
August 29, Saturday 1pm - MELBOURNE Writers’ Festival, ACMI 1 - panel: WRITER AS ACTIVIST - When the world needs changing people write about it. Is the pen more effective than the gun or even the TV camera in achieving change? Four authors, Petina Gappah, Sarah Maddison, Andrew McMillan and Andrew Westoll discuss situations they’d like to see changed with activist, Jeff Sparrow.
August 29, Saturday 5:30pm - MELBOURNE Writers’ Festival, ACMI 1 - REPORTS FROM THE NORTH: The Northern Territory is Victoria’s antipodes and it couldn’t be more different. It is young, volatile, monsoonal and largely indigenous. Andrew McMillan and Sarah Maddison report from the front-line.
September 2, Wednesday 6pm - CANBERRA - Paperchain bookshop Manuka - ‘in conversation’ with David Headon. Short listed for the 2008 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award and winner of the inaugural 2009 Territory Read NT Book of the Year, the up-dated edition of An Intruder’s Guide To East Arnhem Land closes with coverage of the federal Intervention. David Headon’s appreciation of NT literature is evident in his collection North of the Ten Commandments, an anthology of Northern Territory writing.
September 7, Monday 7pm - SYDNEY - Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road - ’in conversation’ with his first mentee, Mark Mordue. Andrew McMillan discusses his relationship with Arnhem Land via three of his non-fiction books Strict Rules, Catalina Dreaming and the 2009 NT Book of the Year An Intruder’s Guide To East Arnhem Land.
September 11, Friday - BRISBANE Writers’ Festival - OUT THERE: THE WILD SIDE OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY - Andrew McMillan & Marie Munkara.
October 7-11 - UBUD Writers’ & Readers’ Festival, Bali.
* Andrew McMillan’s Australian touring is being sponsored by Arts NT and Copyright Agency Limited. I’m grateful for the support.