Melissa Lucashenko: A Writing Life

For three decades, Melissa Lucashenko has published fiction of biting wit and heartrending love.

She has won some of Australia’s most prestigious awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the ARA Historical Novel Prize. Not Quite White in the Head is the first time her Walkley Award–winning non-fiction and journalism have been published together. Offering criticism and wisdom in equal measure, the essays in this collection are deeply imbued with Melissa’s moral clarity and strong sense of justice.

Hear Melissa reflect on her life of letters preceding this collection with Winnie Dunn.