Wednesday 3 August 2016

Day Four

To begin our first session on our last day was David Malouf who provided us with inspiration on how to begin writing. The way he engaged the crowd with his great speaking and powerful words and advice made this session enjoyable to attend. As it ended it i was ready for an unforgettable lunch at Stefanos.

Walking in to Stefanos the first thing I was looking for was where would we be standing for our speech! I was a little nervous to be presenting an award in front of well known authors and to the rest of the crowd. The set up was fantastic, very fancy and consisted of a long table where us university students, authors and guests could eat and socialise.

 After a beautiful three course meal of Gnocchi, pork and cake and ice-cream, it was time to present our awards to the deserved winner. Our award was called the 'Citrus Award' and was presented to the author that produced the juiciest quote through out the festival. The winner of our award was Sunil Yappa. "Kindness and compassion is revolutionary thing." I loved it from the very first time i heard it.






Sunil with his prize (a bag of oranges) :) 

After the awards we were lucky enough to have our own personal experience with Sunil Yappa and Nick Gadd. Nick spoke a lot about his blogs and Sunil kindly enough wanted to hear more about us! We gathered in a circle and each of us spoke a bit about ourselves, our experiences with writing and our spiritual animal. I concluded my talk with my spiritual animal (a magpie) because i was a Collingwood supporter. It was funny to see some people cringe :D

To discuss about ourselves, get to know everyone further and have a closer experience with two authors, we couldn't have asked for a better way to end the Mildura Writers Fesitival :)




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