What is the role of fiction in the process of truth-telling? Do stories of past injustices and atrocities have the power to heal present and future generations? Who has licence to give voice to a nation’s colonial past? Three award-winning novelists discuss the redemptive power of fiction writing.

Jock Serong (The Settlement, Text)

Claire G. Coleman (Enclave, Hachette)

Paul Daley (Jesustown, A&U)

Chair: Dr Kelly Gardiner (English and Creative Arts, La Trobe University)

Recorded at the Bendigo Writers Festival on 5th May, 2023.