Join podcast makers David Sornig (author of Blue Lake), Cynthia Troup (writer) and Miyuki Jokiranta (ABC producer) for an evening of conversation and immersion in storytelling through sound. Learn how records of place, as held in Public Record Office Victoria’s collection, have been transformed into Blue Lake – Finding Dudley Flats, a compelling podcast produced for ABC RN’s The History Listen.
David Sornig is the author of the novel Spiel (UWAP, 2009). His fiction and non-fiction writing has featured in the Griffith Review, Harvard Review, Adelaide Review, and Kill Your Darlings. He has lectured in creative writing and literary studies at a number of Australian universities and currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne. His essay ‘Jubilee: A Hymn for Elsie Williams on Dudley Flats’ was a finalist for the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature Writers Prize, and his subsequent work on Blue Lake was supported by a State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship.
