Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 16 March
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Plenary 2 at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
1 Convention Centre Place South Wharf Victoria Australia
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Writer, speaker and cultural icon Roxane Gay returns to Australia for an entertaining and enlightening conversation about her extraordinary body of work, her dedication to uplifting emerging voices, and to offer her famously sharp takes on feminism, race and politics.
Gay is committed to amplifying voices and passing the microphone around. Following critical acclaim for her bestselling works, including Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and Hunger, Gay is turning the spotlight on powerful new literary talent through her newsletter, The Audacity and the accompanying Audacious Book Club. Her work in promoting emerging talent doesn’t stop there – last year she launched her own publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books, which seeks to publish and support works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction from underrepresented perspectives.
As one of America’s most beloved social commentators, Gay walks the walk of the topics she explores. In March, she joins writer, commentator and gender equality advocate Jamila Rizvi to discuss her unapologetic and audacious approach to writing and culture, while opening doors for others along the way.
The bookseller for this event is Brunswick Bound
Supported by Future Women
An audio recording of this event will be released in the near future.
Featuring
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s ...
Jamila Rizvi
Jamila Rizvi is a diversity, equity and inclusion expert, best-selling author, and sought-after public speaker. She is Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, an organisation that helps women who face barriers to employment return to work and advises employers on gender equality.
Jamila is an author for adults and children, and a columnist for Sunday Life magazine, available weekly as part of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Jamila is also a co-host on The Briefing podcast.
Previously, Jamila advised the Rudd and Gillard Governments on gender, early childhood education, media, and employment participation. She has been named in the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence and was a 2020 Women and Leadership Australia award winner.
Jamila is a board member of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and an ambassador for PLAN International and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation. She lives and works on Wurundjeri country.
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