In conversation with Julie Janson
The Arts Mildura Hub, 39 Langtree Avenue, Mildura VIC
6:30pm Monday, 6 November
*This is a free event
A Burruberongal woman of Darug nation, Julie Janson is a novelist, playwright, poet. Julie will be inconversation with Maya Hodge, a Lardil and Yangkaal emerging writer and curator about her bestselling crime novel Madukka the River Serpent (2022) set in the fictitious northern New South Wales town of Wilga, on the Darling (Baaka) River.
This is a FREE event sponsored by Reading in the Mallee and PEN International.
ALL welcome!
Light refreshments will be available.
Longlisted for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2023 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel
Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services. It took her thirty hours to complete online. Now, she has set up her own private investigation service: Yanakirri Investigative Services – Confidentiality Guaranteed.
When environmental activist, Thommo, suddenly goes missing and the police ignore the case Aunty June takes it upon herself to uncover the secrets surrounding her nephew, Thommo’s, disappearance. Corruption, commercial cotton farmers, bikies, racism, water theft, and unreliable local police – Aunty June is really up against it. Lies and corruption are hiding the truth from reaching the surface. And the Darling River, the sacred Barka is running out of water. Aunty June may be out of her depth, but nothing will stop her fighting for her people and her land.
Madukka The River Serpent is a striking novel about family and resistance from Australian Darug Burruberongal writer and playwright Julie Janson.
