2022 Micah Projects Annual Dinner
Event description
Please join us for the Micah Projects 2022 Annual Dinner
We're thrilled to have international best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Trent Dalton, join us for what will be a very special evening!
Over a 2-course meal, the much-loved Trent Dalton will share stories from his life growing up in Brisbane, in conversation with Micah Projects' CEO Karyn Walsh.
Details:
Time: 6.30pm arrival with canapes, for a 7pm dinner start
Venue: The Ballroom, Victoria Park
Cost: $60pp
More about our Guest Speaker:
Trent Dalton is the author of Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018), the critically acclaimed international and national bestseller and winner of the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize, and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and People's Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
At the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the novel won a record four awards, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award. Boy Swallows Universe has been published across thirty-four territories, and the 2021 stage show was a record-breaking success for Queensland Theatre.
His second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies (HarperCollins, 2020), was a number-one national bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2021 ABIA Awards.
His non-fiction book Love Stories (HarperCollins, 2021) was also a number-one Australian bestseller and the winner of the 2022 Indie Book of the Year Award.
Trent is also a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year.