The mystery author is Mirandi Riwoe.
She will be at the Kyogle Readers and Writers Festival on May 17–18. Check out the program here.
Mirandi is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain which won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Her short story collection The Burnished Sun includes the novella The Fish Girl which won Seizure Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her latest book is Sunbirds.
The winner of the double pass is Peter Lewis for correctly guessing Mirandi Riwoe.
Thank you to everyone who sent emails – a lot of people thought the mystery author was Melissa Lucashenko who will be at the festival.
Peter, we will email you the details of where to get your free pass to the festival.
And see you all at the festival. We can’t wait.
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