Lucy Treloar

Thursday 1st of May - 6pm

Big River, 1 Dairy Road Fyshwick

CWF Partners Big River Distilling Co, Paperchain Bookstore and MARION welcome guest author Lucy Treloar, a writer, occasional creative writing teacher, and artist in residence at Melbourne’s Meat Market. Her novel Salt Creek (2015) won the Dobbie Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK's Walter Scott Prize. Wolfe Island (2019), her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's and NSW Literary Awards.  

At Ginsights we will be in conversation about Days of Innocence and Wonder (2023), joint winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award. We will explore how Lucy created a novel that has resonated deeply with readers and reviewers and engaged us all in “Both a reckoning with fear and loss, and a recognition of the power of belonging”. 

Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in England, Sweden and Melbourne. Her work has centred the lives of women and girls and has contributed to the decolonisation of Australian fiction. Lucy worked with Ngadjuri elder Angelena Rigney to imagine Till, the central character in Days of Innocence and Wonder and Ngadjuri woman Tundra, her employer and friend. Lucy has said: “The trajectory I had in mind for Till was of her being able to face her fear, to acknowledge and face her childhood trauma and its ongoing effects without it defining her identity or her future. The past is always an undercurrent to the present — resolution or ‘closure’ is not always possible — but Till nonetheless eventually is able to live life fully and with hope.”

Presented in partnership with the Big River Distilling Co, Paperchain Bookstore and MARION.