Adam Thompson is a pakana writer from Launceston. Awarded a First Nations Fellowship at Varuna Writers House and one of ten recipients of the inaugural Next Chapter initiative from the Wheeler Centre, his work spans prose, performance and television and saw him named as Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 2019 at the Tasmanian NAIDOC awards. Adam was runner up in Overland’s 2020 Neilma Sidney Short Story Competition and has worked for nearly two decades at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, where he is passionate about advancing the interests of the Aboriginal Community. Born Into This is his first short story collection.
In this episode of The Tamar Valley Writers Festival Podcast, Adam shares about short stories, life as an advocate for Aboriginal land and heritage, and the power of fiction to challenge and inspire.
