Launch of 'Reading and Writing for Change'

Reading and Writing for Change by Amelia Walker explores the many ways in which creative writers take part in fighting injustices and pushing for positive change. To celebrate its release, this event features a series of readings by local writers whose works epitomise the spirit of reading and writing for change.

The program includes a Welcome to Kaurna Yerta by Kauwanu Ivan-Tiwu Copley, followed by readings from Steven Pappin, Juan Garrido Salgado, Kendrea Rhodes, Jazz Fechner-Lante, Tabitha Lean, Ian Gibbins, Chloe Cannell, Simon-Peter Telford, and Shefali Mathew. There will also be a limited open mic for attendees who wish to share their own writings on the theme. Light refreshments will be served, and copies of the book will be available for purchase.

For more information about 'Reading and Writing for Change', visit: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/reading-and-writing-for-change-9781350450400/

Reviews of 'Reading and Writing for Change':

"In this timely and thought-provoking book, Amelia Walker problematises and disrupts western cultural assumptions about creative practice, persuasively arguing that it is only by embracing a more diverse and open understanding of what "creative writing" might mean that socially and politically engaged writers may begin to affect change."

- Oz Hardwick, Professor of Creative Writing, Leeds Trinity University, UK

"Rigorously methodical and indispensably pertinent: Amelia Walker's Reading and Writing for Change is for any socially conscious writer seeking yet for their creative production to do something beyond the merely decorative or decorous. Walker's exemplary book prods us back towards the (lifelong) conversations any serious writer will be having (with themselves), & offers new conceptual tools to help us more sensibly answer the questions, 'what am I doing?' and 'why am I doing it?'

- Dan Disney, author of accelerations & inertias

"Amelia Walker's Reading and Writing for Change is a mercurial exploration of 'ethically viable writing.' The book draws on the relationship between walking and writing as exploratory methodology in order to approach radical ideas and advance boundary-breaking theories, looping back to a critique of canon formation. Walker's writing lifts the work towards a unifying ethical vision, a dream, but a dream simultaneously wrenched and weighted by its political embodiment. An authentic, urgent, and essential voice for our times."

- Dominique Hecq, International Poetry Studies Institute, Australia