A writer’s life entails much more than just getting words on the page. Maxine Beneba Clarke is a slam poet, journalist and the author of the short story collection, Foreign Soil. Her memoir The Hate Race will be published this year. She takes us through what she has learnt so far and her plans for 2016.

Recorded at the State Library of NSW as part of Forest for the Trees, a one-day seminar run by NSW Writers' Centre for Sydney Writers' Festival 2016.

A writer’s life entails much more than just getting words on the page. Maxine Beneba Clarke is a slam poet, journalist and the author of the short story collection, Foreign Soil. Her memoir The Hate Race will be published this year. She takes us through what she has learnt so far and her plans for 2016. Recorded at the State Library of NSW as part of Forest for the Trees, a one-day seminar run by NSW Writers' Centre for Sydney Writers' Festival 2016.

Forest for the Trees - Maxine Beneba Clarke Keynote

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