Jane Harrison

Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright, author and festival director. Her first play, Stolen, was performed across Australia and internationally for seven years, and her second, Rainbow’s End, won the 2012 Drover Award.

Her young adult novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Awards. Jane directed the Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival in Melbourne in 2016, 2019 and 2022. She believes in the power of stories to strengthen cultural connection. The stage play of The Visitors has been a smash hit in several locations and will be presented in Bendigo at Ulumbarra Theatre on August 8 2024, 8pm. 

 

The Bendigo Writers Festival acknowledges that the City of Greater Bendigo is located on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung country.