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Nardi Simpson (@nardiga) and Jackie Huggins share an embrace on stage as they and Ali Cobby Eckermann receive a sta… https://t.co/BAsNb0hmeO

17 May 2022

RT @suzanne_leal: ‘They tell me it’s a brave decision for a writer to publish a biography of a parent’ - Jackie Huggins, author of the biog…

17 May 2022

RT @shand_kathy: ‘Nardi Simpson speaking directly to her son in the audience at the Town Hall urged him and us all ‘to bring it forward ‘-t…

17 May 2022

“Son, when you are brave enough to share the beauty and ugliness of all that you are, not only do you descend from… https://t.co/2gKWM8bYST

17 May 2022

“For me, friends, tonight is not about change. My change is incremental, benefitting mostly myself. Tonight, I choo… https://t.co/q3IhvBtjYe

17 May 2022

“After I packed away my guitar at the side of the stage…claps punctuating the announcement of big time authors, I m… https://t.co/JEmOOvMgrU

17 May 2022

“Your becoming, your Yilaalu, your Burruguu is precious. It is both your inheritance and the most powerful gift you… https://t.co/PhqBJiBuFa

17 May 2022

“The best bits and the worst bits. Bring it all forward. Old and new, pass that down the line.” – Nardi Simpson (… https://t.co/am2bwe2Wpt

17 May 2022

“Son, what it has taken me a lifetime to learn, what makes us important as Sovereign Ullaroi, Murri, First Nation p… https://t.co/b7G7tdJLlr

17 May 2022

“She encouraged me to embrace what I had been, as part of what I wished to become.” – Nardi Simpson (@nardiga) on her editor, Grace

17 May 2022

“Grace gently reminded me, through a handful of words in a not-so-great paragraph, of my role within the continuanc… https://t.co/yj6AI3dtXt

17 May 2022

“Of course, she was right. Editors, unfortunately, often are.” – Nardi Simpson (@nardiga) #SydneyWritersFestival

17 May 2022

“Here I was trying to change. Cast off the musician and front up as an author, making up everything as I went along… https://t.co/54XLrFAmFH

17 May 2022

“By embracing the vastness between transition points, I am held at the centre of a circle 2,000 generations in circ… https://t.co/GMzZEpHNey

17 May 2022

“Yilaalu sandwiches its speaker within this expanse, reducing the self to a fleck, a particle, a mere speckle of du… https://t.co/eH7j8R90cO

17 May 2022

“Yilaalu is our word for stretches of time. It translates as an inordinate amount of time in the past. It simultane… https://t.co/ADkeu0QK61

17 May 2022

“Burruguu is translated as the dreaming, or dreamtime, or as some are now saying: the everywhen.” – Nardi Simpson (… https://t.co/kfjzGwIXrC

17 May 2022

“In Yuwaalaraay, Burruguu is the time of creation, an unmarked ‘always’ that folds and rolls in and around itself.… https://t.co/GEvCeuyHHu

17 May 2022

“We are a product of at least 2,000 generations. When you measure things in such ways, the concept of change fundam… https://t.co/X2RRWKWgfE

17 May 2022

Ali Cobby Eckermann taps her heart whilst congratulating @EvelynAraluen on winning @TheStellaPrize. #SydneyWritersFestival

17 May 2022

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