

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Paul Collis 'Wita Witalana'  Book Launch
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for the launch of Paul Collis's new collection of poetry 'Wita Witalana'

‘The searing ‘Barkindji’ voice reminds us that so much remains unreconciled in the depravity of colonialism-crimson brush strokes on tarnished Dreaming.’
Samuel Wagan Watson

Paul Collis is a Barkindji person from Bourke, on the Darling River in north-west New South Wales. His novel Dancing Home was the winner of the 2016 David Unaipon Award, and was published in 2017 by the University of Queensland Press. He teaches creative writing at the University of Canberra, where he earned a PhD in Communications.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/canberra/paul-collis-wita-witalana-book-launch/200028238048311
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Canberra
- **state**: CT
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: To all my friends, Cook Shops
- **lat**: -35.25912
- **long**: 149.06345
- **full address**: To all my friends, Cook Shops, 24 Cook Pl, Cook ACT 2614, Australia,Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Recent Work Press (https://allevents.in/org/recent-work-press/17384565)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** To all my friends, Cook Shops, 24 Cook Pl, Cook ACT 2614, Australia,Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Recent Work Press
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Paul Collis 'Wita Witalana'  Book Launch ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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