EVENT: Friends of UWA Albany Sandwich Seminar

Sarah Drummond is the author of the fishing memoir 'Salt Story: of sea dogs and fisherwomen'. She completed an arts degree at UWA's Albany Campus. Sarah is now writing a history/fiction doctorate about the community of sealers who lived in King George Sound on the threshold of West Australian colonisation.

In 1825-26 a small community of seal hunters lived on the islands around Albany. Their origins were diverse - African American, English, Maori and several men and women indigenous to Van Diemen's Land, Sydney and South Australia. When Major Lockyer arrived on the Amity to found the settlement of King George Sound, he discovered there 'had been some bad work done here' and several of the sealers were arrested for murder and abduction.

Her PhD thesis is a fictional account of this snippet of history. Her talk will discuss the historical account and then go into the process of writing historical fiction.