Kgshak Akec

(pronounced Keh-shak A-kech) is a proud South-Sudanese Australian writer, storyteller, performing and community artist, and a lover of words who lives, works, and writes on Wadawurrung Country | Geelong.

Kgshak’s first book Hopeless Kingdom, a novel inspired by the author’s own experience of migration from Africa to Australia, was shortlisted for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

 

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