Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Sunday 08 May
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
This year the University of Melbourne’s Janet Clarke Hall celebrates its 125th anniversary and will hold a series of events marking its heritage as Australia’s oldest residential college for women and one of the first in the world. The first of these will be an afternoon panel and discussion forum at the Wheeler Centre featuring college literary luminaries. Writers and novelists Helen Garner, Anna Goldsworthy, Alice Pung and Lee Tulloch have all dwelt within Janet Clarke Hall’s ivy-clad walls as students, tutors or artists in residence, and will gather to discuss its influences, their work and the literary life with fellow JCH alumni, Jan McGuinness.
Featuring
Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy is the author of the memoirs Welcome to Your New Life and Piano Lessons, and Quarterly Essay 50, On Women, Freedom and Misogyny. Her writing has appeared in the Monthly, the Age, the Adelaide Review and Best Australian Essays.
Anna has won numerous prizes and scholarships for piano performance. In 2004, she completed a world tour performing in festivals and concert halls in Australia, Asia, Europe and North and South America.
Her solo CD, Come With Us, was released in early 2008. In that same year she collaborated with her father, Peter Goldsworthy, on a theatrical adaptation of his book Maestro, which drew inspiration from her early life.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction ...
Alice Pung
Alice Pung OAM is the author of the bestselling memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson ...
Lee Tulloch
Lee Tulloch is a journalist and novelist.
Lee was born in Melbourne in 1954 and educated at the University of Melbourne where she resided at Janet Clarke Hall and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in the mid 70s. Following a successful career in fashion journalism, Tulloch moved to New York via Paris in 1985 where she later published her first novel, Fabulous Nobodies, based on the fashion industry. It was short listed for the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Tulloch has published four novels since, including works of crime and darkly erotic fiction. In 2001 she returned to Australia and settled in Sydney with her photographer husband Tony Amos and daughter Lolita. Tulloch continues to balances her fiction writing with journalism, including the peripatetic requirements of editing Vogue Living’s travel pages.