What’s My Story? – It’s Anchors Aweigh!

The Totally Lit Festival kicks off tonight and runs for the next two weeks.

After nearly two years of planning, Totally Lit is finally here!

The festival goes live this evening with a very special event at the WA Maritime Museum featuring WA author Kim Scott giving the keynote address.

Kim’s remarkable career as a published author began with Fremantle Press and the publication of his first novel, True Country. He went on to write Benang: From the Heart and to become the first Indigenous Australian to win the esteemed Miles Franklin Literary Award – an achievement he repeated with the publication of That Dead Man Dance.

Who but Kim Scott could be more ideally suited to the role of keynote speaker in this festival of live literature celebratingFremantle/Walyalup as a place of stories and a city of literature?

Those of us involved in the creation of Totally Lit all believe passionately in the power of storytelling and the written word. Stories are an essential part of our lives, connecting us and helping us to understand each other and the world around us.

Over the next two weeks we’re looking forward to connecting with you through the stories we can share in exhibitions (From Nonna with Love), film (The Road to Indonesia), song (La Gioia delle Donne), First Nations storytelling (Yarning Manjaree), large-scale projections (Writ Large), ballet (Dancing with Words), on the plate (Spice Stories and Scale to Tail) in letters (To Whom It May Concern), in buildings (Samsons in Fremantle, If these walls could talk …) and, of course, in books (Many Voices, Two Men Walk Into a Bar, In the Corner Room, Story Wheel, and more).