Shifting Perspectives – the role fiction and storytelling can play in climate action

With Alice Robinson (If You Go) and film maker and organiser Alex Kelly (In My Blood It Runs) in conversation.

Alice Robinson is the author of three novels with Affirm Press – most recently If You Go (2024). Her debut novel, Anchor Point (2015), was longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards. The Glad Shout (2019) was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award and The Colin Roderick Literary Award and won the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Alice has a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University, for which she was awarded Vice Chancellor's Peak Award for Research. She works at Federation University and RMIT.

Alex Kelly is a filmmaker and organiser based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Working across activism, communications and troublemaking, Alex connects the disciplines of art, communications and social change. Alex is a member of the Unquiet Collective and her artistic focus is the futuring practice, The Things We Did Next.

The Words in Winter conversation series is generously supported by the Community Bank Daylesford District.