Join Maria Takolander at Word for Word with Catharine Lumby and Frank Moorhouse for their panel discussion ‘Writing an Icon’. 

In this session they will discuss both the pleasures and pitfalls of writing a rich and colourful life.

Maria Takolander is a senior lecturer in literature at Deakin University in Geelong. She is the author of a work of literary criticism and two poetry collections. Her poems have featured in annual best-of anthologies for the past seven years. This is her first book of fiction.