In Conversation with Erina Reddan
Broadmeadows Library, Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows VIC, Australia
Join us in conversation with Erina Reddan as we discuss her new novel Deep in the Forest, exploring power, cults, and the need to belong.
Erina Reddan has worked with words, ideas and stories all her life. She started out as a journalist, working in radio and television and was awarded the prestigious Walkley Award for her work as an ABC foreign correspondent. She has a Master’s Degree in Professional Writing (University of Technology Sydney) and a PhD in Creative Writing (La Trobe University) on girl warriors and ball gowns. She’s taught politics at the University of Melbourne and creative writing at LaTrobe University and Writers Victoria. Her family claims she can glamorise a handful of facts beyond recognition in the service of an entertaining story, sometimes at the expense of truth but always in favour of wonder.