'Serve the tea Blak': Ren Wyld in Conversation with Roanna Gonsalves

About the event

Southerly is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural Southerly Essay, written by K. A. Ren Wyld and entitled "Serve the tea Blak".

As part of Southerly's ongoing revival, we will publish on our website a series of essays each focused on an Australian literary work or aspect of Australian literature. The inaugural Southerly Essay is an extended reflection on the award-winning work, Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea by Natalie Harkin (Wakefield Press, 2025).

To launch this first Southerly Essay, K. A. Ren Wyld will be in conversation with Roanna Gonsalves, Editor of Southerly, about the important themes of Harkin's work, the history contained within it, and the use of archival research to speak back to the colony and to power, through literature.

Bio

K. A Ren Wyld is a writer living on the coast, south of Adelaide. Their next novel, Whichway Shimmering Dust (UQP, 2027), is a work of imagined justice for members of the Stolen Generations. Ren was the guest co-editor of Southerly 80.1, First, the Future, and contributed an essay on archival material in Aboriginal-authored fiction and poetry, titled "Novel Archival Adventurers".