The Writing Group as a Place of Joy
ABOUT THE SHOW
How do safe place and safe community nurture creative work? We invite you to listen in as we yarn about connection in the places we create with, and for, each other. This is the space where the stories we tell/write/listen shape us. The joy of the journey, not the outcomes.
PART OF BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Darby Jones is a writer and editor with matrilineal ties to the Kamilaroi mob in Southwest Queensland. He is a proud alumnus of the black&write Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and the 2025 Open Book Internship.As a writer, he has contributed to Griffith Review, Island Magazine, IndigenousX, and Lemonade: Letters to Art. As an editor, he has collaborated with Griffith Review, University of Queensland Press, Bundyi (Simon & Schuster), Penguin Random House (Australia & UK), Hachette (Australia & UK), and many more. Darby is a staunch advocate for diverse representation in literature and has dedicated his career to amplifying the voices of marginalised peoples.
Dakota Feirer is a First Nations Australian (Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr) storyteller with his work published in Overland literary journal, Wonderground journal, Rabbit Poetry and Australian Poetry. His work consists of poems, prose and spoken word performances that engage with Country, culture, resurgence and manhood. Dakota believes in healing Country and our communities through art and storytelling.
Sharlene Allsopp was born on Bundjalung Country into the Olive mob. She has been published widely, including in Griffith Review, Portside Review, and Aniko Press. She was the University of QLD’s Ford Memorial Poet of the Year in 2021. Her debut novel The Great Undoing, released with Ultimo Press, won the QLD Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024. She is currently working and studying at the University of QLD and developing her next novel. Sharlene lives in Meanjin/Brisbane with her family and her beloved doggo—Morty.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Darby Jones is a writer and editor with matrilineal ties to the Kamilaroi mob in Southwest Queensland. He is a proud alumnus of the black&write Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and the 2025 Open Book Internship.As a writer, he has contributed to Griffith Review, Island Magazine, IndigenousX, and Lemonade: Letters to Art. As an editor, he has collaborated with Griffith Review, University of Queensland Press, Bundyi (Simon & Schuster), Penguin Random House (Australia & UK), Hachette (Australia & UK), and many more. Darby is a staunch advocate for diverse representation in literature and has dedicated his career to amplifying the voices of marginalised peoples.
Dakota Feirer is a First Nations Australian (Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr) storyteller with his work published in Overland literary journal, Wonderground journal, Rabbit Poetry and Australian Poetry. His work consists of poems, prose and spoken word performances that engage with Country, culture, resurgence and manhood. Dakota believes in healing Country and our communities through art and storytelling.
Sharlene Allsopp was born on Bundjalung Country into the Olive mob. She has been published widely, including in Griffith Review, Portside Review, and Aniko Press. She was the University of QLD’s Ford Memorial Poet of the Year in 2021. Her debut novel The Great Undoing, released with Ultimo Press, won the QLD Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024. She is currently working and studying at the University of QLD and developing her next novel. Sharlene lives in Meanjin/Brisbane with her family and her beloved doggo—Morty.
