"You Young mob, all you gotta do to start writing a story is to grab a pen and paper and write for five minutes, dont make it bigger than it has to be, just keep it to five minutes"
MELISSA LUCASHENKO is a multi-award winning Goorie writer. Her 2013 novel Mullumbimby was awarded the Deloitte Queensland Literary Award for Fiction, won the Victorian Premiers Prize for Indigenous Writing, and was longlisted for both the Stella and Miles Franklin awards as well as the Dublin IMPAC Literary Prize 2015. Melissa was awarded the 2016 CAL Fellowship to work on Too Much Lip.
Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, as well as a founding member of the prisoners’ human rights group, Sisters Inside. She
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