Borderland: Launch with Graham Akhurst
Join Graham Akhurst to celebrate the release of Borderland. Graham will be in conversation with Delia Falconer.
Join FASS academics Graham Akhurst (FASS Indigenous Australian Studies & Creative Writing) and Dr Delia Falconer to celebrate the release of Graham's debut novel Borderland, through UWA Publishing.
Borderland follows Jono, a Brisbane-born Indigenous teenager lacking connection to his Country and community. When Jono and his best friend Lucia are presented the opportunity to intern with a documentary crew working to promote a large mining project in western Queensland, a conflict arises where Jono's intuition begins to clash with his desire, and he begins to experience visions of Wudun, a malevolent spirit from the Dreaming. What ensues is a heart-pounding gothic horror, following Jono on an epic quest to find himself.
Graham Akhurst is an Aboriginal writer and academic from the Kokomini of Northern Queensland. He is currently a lecturer at UTS, specialising in Indigenous Australian Studies and Creative Writing. Borderland is his first novel, though he has had creative works published in Kweli and J Journal for Fiction, the Australian Book Review, Cordite, VerityLa, Australian Poetry Journal, Artlines, Meanjin, and more. His short story 'Staffy' was nominated for the 2022 PEN Dau Award, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize, and Pushcart Prize.
Joining Graham in conversation is Dr Delia Falconer, a FASS academic and award-winning author of the books The Service of Clouds, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, Sydney, and Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty of loss.
The book’s launch is scheduled for 12 Oct, 6:30 pm – 7:50 pm at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown.
