Clunes Booktown Festival: Women Writing Women
This event is now fully booked. Festival passes to Clunes Booktown (excluding this event) are available at the festival website.
‘A word after a word after a word is power,’ wrote the feminist author Margaret Atwood.
What is the power of putting a woman front and centre in a story? And is it still a subversive act? In this broad discussion at Clunes Booktown Festival we’ll hear from women who write about women: Hannah Kent (Burial Rites), Clementine Ford (Fight Like a Girl), Melissa Keil (The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl) and Jane Harrison (Becoming Kirrali Lewis).
With experience writing across a range of forms and genres – from opinion columns to fantasy YA novels to feminist manifesto to historical fiction – these writers will discuss their priorities, predicaments and even anxieties when placing women at the centre of their narratives. What are the unique responsibilities of describing female experiences?
In conversation with Gemma Rayner.
Presented in partnership with Clunes Booktown Festival.
Featuring
Hannah Kent’s debut novel, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into over thirty languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Pri... Read more
Clementine Ford is a Melbourne-based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and is a regular contributor to the Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Through her twice-weekly columns for Daily Life, Clementine explores issues of gen... Read more
Melissa Keil is a writer and children’s book editor. She is the author of three YA novels: Life in Outer Space, The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl and The Secret Science of Magic. Her short story, Sundays, is featured in Begin, End, Begin, the #LoveOzYA anthology. She is also the autho... Read more
Gemma Rayner is Series Producer at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. For five years she has worked across a range of programming initiatives, from regular event and podcast series to Town Hall debates, comedy, children’s and cabaret specials, and festivals and regional to... Read more
Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright, author and festival director. Her first play, Stolen, was performed across Australia and internationally for seven years, and her second, Rainbow’s End, won the 2012 Drover Award. Her young adult novel B... Read more
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