Secrets with Judi Morison

On the back of NAIDOC Week, we're welcoming Judi Morison to bring the themes of her novel Secrets to life for a conversation about the secrets and stories we inherit without knowing, about the stories we tell ourselves to survive and what might happen when we stop, take a breath and speak.

Secrets is a powerful family saga about a matriarch with only months to live and a secret kept for sixty years.

Her grandson is in gaol. Her family is fractured. Her beloved homestead, Cora, is slipping away. It's a sweeping story of truth, generational trauma, and the fierce possibility of healing. Also about what happens when silence has sat too long at the table.

Judi's work is shaped by her Gamilaraay and Celtic heritage and years of listening - to Country, to stories, and to First Nations voices through the Dreaming Inside Project at Junee Correctional Centre. Her novel was mentored by Larissa Behrendt and is a testament to the power of truth-telling.

In this conversation, the themes of her novels will step off the page and stop being literary devices, becoming instead the thing we're all living. Come along. Bring a friend. Bring your questions. Leave feeling like you've actually learned something.

🎟️ Free for SMSA Members | $10 for friends and non-members

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Host or Publisher Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts (SMSA)