John Morrissey joined First Friday to discuss the upcoming 2024 Boundless Mentorship, his writing career since winning the 2020 Boundless Mentorship, and his new collection of stories, Firelight.

This year’s Boundless Festival will consist of five in-person events between September and December, in partnership with Western Sydney venues.

Congratulations to the successful applicants to our 2023 mentoring program for emerging literary curators from culturally diverse backgrounds: Alejandra Martinez, Greg Page and Simone Amelia Jordan, as well as returning curators Tina Huang and Zohra Aly.

Edoardo Crismani has been awarded the 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship for Finding Billy Brown, a fast-paced story about an AFL player who is hit by a car, only to wake up in the 1930s, where he meets his boxer great-grandfather.

Judi Morison has won the 2022 Boundless Mentorship for her family saga, When Grandmothers Speak, set in Queensland and northern NSW in the 1950s.

“Boundless is a festival that celebrates our interconnectedness, amplifies our unique voices, brings us together through the power of words.”

We asked the curators a couple of questions before the festival, to provide you with a chance to get to know them and their work better.

Boundless, Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, will be presented online, 30 October – 1 November.