Jane Harrison

About

Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people of NSW. Her first play Stolen toured Australia and internationally. Rainbow’s End premiered in 2003 and won the 2012 Drovers Award. The Visitors (play) premiered in 2020 with a new production at the Sydney Opera House in 2023, winning the Sydney Critics Award for Best New Australian Work for 2021, the Best Production and Best Ensemble in the 2024 awards. The opera The Visitors premiered in 2023. Her novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize while her latest novel is The Visitors which won the Indie Debut Book of the Year 2024. She is the Festival Director of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival (2016, 2019, 2022, 2024).

Past Events

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Clunes Booktown Festival: Women Writing Women

Hannah Kent, Clementine Ford, Melissa Keil, Gemma Rayner, Jane Harrison

6 May

Spring Fling

Jane Harrison: The Visitors

Jane Harrison, Tony Birch, Phoebe Briggs, Shauntai Sherree

9 Oct

Jane Harrison In Conversation: The Visitors [The Round]

Jane Harrison, Daniel James

The Visitors (1)

14 Jul

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