Win a double pass to Ali Cobby Eckermann: Little Bit Long Time at the Sydney Writers’ Festival!

Win a double pass to Ali Cobby Eckermann: Little Bit Long Time at the Sydney Writers’ Festival!

4:30 – 5:30PM, Sunday 28 May 2017 | Event details »

 

To go into the draw, send an email to media@redroomcompany.org and tell us your favourite Red Room Poetry Project and why. 

The winner will be notified by email, please include your name and phone number. Entries close 4:00PM on Thursday 25 May (AEST).

Ali Cobby Eckermann was recently announced as the 2017 Red Room Poetry Fellow. Ali worked with the Unlocked project, in the women’s prison Dillwynia. You can purchase the anthology here.

In March this year, Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet Ali Cobby Eckermann received an email telling her she’d won the Windham-Campbell prize, worth $215,000. The email the winners receive is the first time they learn of their consideration. This sudden recognition propelled Ali onto the international literary stage. Ali has published three collections of poetry, a verse novel and a ‘poetic memoir’, Too Afraid to Cry, which she described as an ‘emotional timeline’ of the Stolen Generations. Ali talks to Peter Minter about her work, her art and the changes that global recognition brings.