THE Mildura Writers Festival has tailored this year's "school talk" to meet the needs of Year 12 students who have faced challenges adapting to remote learning.

Cate Kennedy, the author of Like a House on Fire, will speak virtually to students at St Joseph's College on June 22 as a lead-in event to the free online live-streamed Mildura Writers Festival in July.

"It is a wonderful and a rare oppo...