Anthology author in town for tour

AWimmera author, contributor and audio-book producer of a new Australian literary anthology is back in the region this week as part of a Wimmera book tour.

Redrock Books and Gallery in Horsham will host Maryanne Plazzer, an audio producer and writer with family roots and personal history in the Wimmera, as well as literary colleague Gay Lynch, for a conversation on the new literary anthology ‘Growing Up In Country Australia’.

A collection of memoirs by established and emerging Australian literary talent edited by The Saturday Paper senior reporter Rick Morton, the new book attempts to put in words the unique character of life in the country.

Ms Plazzer’s contribution, ‘Rain Rain, Go Away’, zeroed in on time spent running Jeparit’s Hindmarsh Hotel during the Millennium Drought.

Her boutique audio business, with a penchant for audiobooks, audio dramas and podcasts, also produced the Growing Up In Country Australia audiobook that uses 23 narrators to bring to life the anthology’s 40 stories.

Ms Plazzer will be at Redrock on Friday with writer, academic and Growing Up in Country Australia writer Ms Lynch, who contributed her work ‘If Someone Took You, They’d Soon Bring You Back’.

Ms Plazzer and Ms Lynch’s work appear alongside contributions from other renowned writers and journalists including Tony Armstrong, Annabel Crab and Lily Chan.

Ms Plazzer will also be in Hindmarsh Shire today and tomorrow for a council Author Talks series at Jeparit, Rainbow, Nhill and Dimboola libraries to speak about her writing and the anthologies rural Australian storytelling focus.

Copies of the book are available at Redrock Books and Gallery, Horsham, as well as Hindmarsh libraries, where copies will be available to borrow.

People can book their seat for Friday’s Redrock Books and Gallery: In conversation with Maryanne Plazzer and Gay Lynch online or in store. The session will run from 5.30pm to 7.30pm.

Hindmarsh Author Talks series are at Jeparit, 10am today; Rainbow, 2pm today; Nhill, 10am tomorrow and Dimboola, 2pm tomorrow.

Bookings are necessary via libraries@ hindmarsh.vic.gov.au or by calling 5391 4444.